Example sentences of "[vb past] more [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the community college students recalled more information when the if-then relations were stated explicitly than they did when they were implicit only . |
| 2 | Equally , the community college students recalled more information when the relative importance of different ideas was made more explicit . |
| 3 | The car received more publicity when a feminist group complained that shots of Naomi appearing in a leather outfit complete with whip in a fantasy bondage scene was ‘ sexist and disgusting ’ . |
| 4 | Up to fourteen months after the event , bereaved persons still showed more depression and a higher incidence of autonomic symptoms ( dizziness , fainting , trembling , nervousness , chest pain , sweating and palpitations ) . |
| 5 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 6 | The sky , grey and lowering , threatened more snow whilst the previous day 's fall carpeted the hedgerows and fields , choking the ditches and making the trackways slippery and dangerous . |
| 7 | Not content to rest his case on the prudence with which the Holy Spirit had left astronomy out of the Scriptures , he proceeded to show that the miracle of Joshua 's long day made more sense if the text was read from a Copernican standpoint . |
| 8 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 9 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 10 | In addition , as smith , John Marscal had to repair the lord 's ploughs , and shoe the lord 's horses ; in return he got more land and a cow . |
| 11 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
| 12 | And they certainly needed more help than the school could give . |
| 13 | You see , it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have . |
| 14 | If John , apart from the important reference in Chapter 3 , which we shall consider later , avoids the term Kingdom of God , he does on the other hand lay more stress than the other three Gospels on Jesus as King of Israel ( Barrett 1960:346 ) . |
| 15 | His brief tenure of power in Java in the early 19th century saw more reform than the centuries of Dutch oppression . |
| 16 | Those green shoots of economic spring here in the UK are beginning to feel a mite lonely as the gross domestic product figures from the US yesterday brought more evidence that the recovery there seems to have stalled , and analysts are redoing their sums on IBM Corp in light of recent information : Furman Selz removed the company from its recommended list and analyst Peter Lieu said he lowered his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates because of the extreme gross margin pressure on the mainframe business ; Bear Stearns & Co analyst Cliff Friedman cut his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates on IBM , but bravely maintains a hold rating on the stock ; he trimmed his 1993 estimates on IBM to break-even from $1.25 a share and cut his 1994 estimates to $2.25 , from $3.25 , again citing weak mainframe demand . |
| 17 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 18 | Every time we try to slip past Art 's table , there 'll be a pause , and then a thick whisper that beats its way right across the room , ‘ Tod Friendly : had more ass than a toilet seat . ’ |
| 19 | City had more play and the best of the chances , but they only took one . |
| 20 | Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra had more fun than the audience in the comedy western Four for Texas ( 1963 ) , and in 1964 Bing Crosby joined Sinatra , Martin and Davis for Robin and the Seven Hoods . |
| 21 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 22 | Moreover , although the Marxists had more success than the populists in creating links with their chosen constituency , those links remained extremely tenuous . |
| 23 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 24 | I opened them with my teeth and found that most had more flavour than the chicken . |
| 25 | A new type of dual power arose , reproduced in every region where Yeltsin 's ‘ regents ’ ( local representatives of the president , later called ‘ governors ’ at regional level and ‘ prefects ’ at district level ) often had more power than the elected local government . |
| 26 | The old man had more power than the major expected . |
| 27 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |
| 28 | In a way this was a compromise between the people in Britain who wanted more sugar and the established planters in the West Indies who would find the additional competition of new sugar colonies entirely unwelcome . |
| 29 | He wanted more time and the rebels gave him it . |
| 30 | Aabida continued pouring water into various containers at teacher 's suggestion , but remained convinced that a taller container held more water than a shorter , fatter one . |