Example sentences of "[vb base] more [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 2 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 3 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 4 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 5 | Large firms make more sense when the UK is competing within a large European market . |
| 6 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 7 | ‘ We produce more shows than a big gallery like the Tate does in a year , ’ says Gilbert with some pride . |
| 8 | In countries such as Belgium and France , animals produce more waste than the land can absorb . |
| 9 | The Shias of the south , the Sunnis of Sidon and Tripoli , would not only oppose such a state , but produce more children than the Maronites , who would then be a minority in the country they had created . |
| 10 | Of course , there are times when your chances are much greater , such as the early morning , which will , more often than not , produce more carp than the afternoon . |
| 11 | If you insert more rows than the numbers |
| 12 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 13 | such as those involved in printing , use more water than a dye works that scours and dyes fabrics by simple processes . |
| 14 | ‘ People take more interest because the weather gets cold , ’ said Mr Walters . |
| 15 | The viscous nature of andesite lavas has some interesting side effects , especially in those which approach rhyolites in composition — that is , they contain more silica than an ‘ average ’ andesite . |
| 16 | The few weapons that are made of arsenical copper contain more arsenic than the tools , thus making them potentially harder . |
| 17 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 18 | S3 This is a critical year where decisions about which pupils are likely to prove to be good Higher Candidates and which need more consolidation and a slower pace are taken . |
| 19 | In order to ‘ do things with words ’ either actively , as language producers , or passively , as language understanders , we clearly need more tools than the formal language system , though we do need that too . |
| 20 | Shops need more business and the working public needs more time to go shopping . |
| 21 | I have more say than the people I look out on , nomads , tide-people . |
| 22 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 23 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 24 | Those who administer a programme inevitably have more information than the legislative branch , and this is institutionalized in such procedures as congressional hearings . |
| 25 | The figures show that travelling families are smaller than they used to be , but that travellers still have more children than the settled community . |
| 26 | We have more facets than a hive has bees . |
| 27 | ‘ You have more twists than a snake ! |
| 28 | Among women married over age 30 , women in class I and II have more babies than the average . |
| 29 | She left when she got adopted as Conservative candidate for Newbury , so he is not without erm competent female advice , and some would say perhaps they have more power than the having a woman colleague in the cabinet . |
| 30 | 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 . |