Example sentences of "[vb base] more [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We produce more shows than a big gallery like the Tate does in a year , ’ says Gilbert with some pride . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you insert more rows than the numbers |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The figures show that travelling families are smaller than they used to be , but that travellers still have more children than the settled community . |
| 9 | We have more facets than a hive has bees . |
| 10 | ‘ You have more twists than a snake ! |
| 11 | Among women married over age 30 , women in class I and II have more babies than the average . |
| 12 | Fortunately our CAA is doing its very best for all of us , but some of the smaller countries can outvote the UK , France and Germany and we together have more pilots than the rest . |