Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 2 | And his ’ habit of arriving back late in the evening after dinner to do more work was recorded in my preliminary report . |
| 3 | Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic . |
| 4 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 5 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 6 | This form of teaching takes more time than other methods but the emphasis is on learning the processes of thinking and organisation involved in reaching solutions . |
| 7 | There are organic changes to the heart , and it becomes less efficient as we get older ; but lack of exercise causes more deterioration than simple ageing . |
| 8 | Name change is part of plan to generate more interest |
| 9 | Speaking purely politically , in the current climate , cultural representations of failure have more resonance than fortitude-in-adversity . |
| 10 | The geographical patterns of de-industrialization allow more understanding if we study the collective geographical behaviour of leading decision-takers . |
| 11 | At each de-veiling of sleeting showers more snow whitened the tops and yet there were still leaves on the trees at the roadside . |
| 12 | But this is to say no more than that the presence of only one arbiter on the meaning of any of the conditions of jurisdiction produces more certainty than a division of responsibility . |
| 13 | Students of cancer had more reason to be interested in chromatin and its role in cell division , but chemical approaches to cancer were predominantly concerned with molecules which could be identified at the time , i.e. with molecular weights under 1000 . |
| 14 | Not all transsexuals undergo surgical treatment , though the number of such operations performed may well rise steadily as the problem of transsexualism gains more attention and becomes more visible , and as clinics are established specializing in treatment and research . |
| 15 | Increasing the number of displayable colours or shades of grey requires more memory to store the image . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |
| 17 | As will be seen later , it was used by management and unions in 1981 to make a joint approach to the Secretary of State for Transport to get more government support for the railways . |
| 18 | With Jaguar revealing more misery in the US where September sales were down 19.1 per cent year on the year , the company needs the takeover interest to keep its share price alive . |
| 19 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 20 | Pinot Blanc wines in Champagne have more body than the Chardonnay and a greater alcoholic potential , but they lack finesse and usually remain neutral or possess a slightly earthy taste . |
| 21 | Money that will be used in part to buy more mercury , that 's supposed to be a controlled substance . |
| 22 | Within such broad frameworks as these it also seems likely , however , that political sociologists will in future give more attention to the distinctive cultural traditions and historical experiences , and the specific conditions and problems , which a particular state , or group of states , confronts . |
| 23 | If the returns from farming dropped more time could be spent in the forest with consequent improvement in the level of management . |
| 24 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 25 | Under the new arrangements , due for approval on April 2nd , the traded-options market will in theory gain more autonomy by falling outside this structure . |
| 26 | More competition in aviation means more choice , better services and lower fares . |
| 27 | For this no one in American deserves more credit than Edmund Wilson . |
| 28 | Separation of the upper third of the continental crust on a plate has the effect of reducing the overall buoyancy of the subducted crust by nearly one-half , and this in turn allows more subduction than would otherwise have occurred . |
| 29 | The forum would now use the information to ‘ press for changes in legislation to enable more money and resources to be directed at the problem , while at the same time doing all we can to enable local people to find local solutions ’ . |
| 30 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |