Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland and Wales public pressure developed for more independence than could be gained from decentralized administration . |
| 2 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 3 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
| 4 | March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening . |
| 5 | The sexual aspects of adult life are immensely varied and will be considered in more detail as we come to think of the client groups with which social workers deal . |
| 6 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 7 | Their much-derided ‘ copying ’ focus is now seen with more respect as showing a complete absence of the NIH ( not invented here ) syndrome that causes so many Western companies problems when new but not original ideas are introduced . |
| 8 | " It is harde to be expected " , wrote one newsletter writer , " with what great joy and satisfaction his majesties have been proclaimed in most of the Citties " , whilst the Earl of Peterborough thought that never had a King been " proclaimed with more applause than he that raignes under the name of James the Second " . |
| 9 | Reynolds ' weighty irony was wielded with more address than arguments put forward by later traditionalists . |
| 10 | This can be written in more detail as . |
| 11 | Women lived a different cultural , economic , and political life from men in the 1920s , as will be seen in more detail when we return to this area and topic in 1926 . |
| 12 | She had been afraid to tell Nancy 's story to Dr Losberne , since the good doctor was very excitable and often acted with more enthusiasm than wisdom . |
| 13 | In spite of these problems which suggest that the data should be interpreted with more caution than other information that originated in the WHO collaborative studies , the effect of maternal age on early and intermediate fetal mortality is unmistakable . |
| 14 | Soon the subordinate zones shrink to narrow pattern-borders and all the concentration is on the figure-scenes , executed in a variety of techniques : outline , outline filled with white , a mixture of black and white silhouette , and sometimes black-figure , used with more colour than is common at Corinth and seldom for the main figures . |
| 15 | There is also a view that sexual crimes against men are regarded with more gravity than sexual crimes against women and that if men as well as women could be the legal victims of rape , this might assist in changing attitudes towards the offence . |
| 16 | Walks on the beach also need to be undertaken with more caution if the tides are unknown . |
| 17 | But she was also distant kin to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and thus treated with more consideration than Isabel . |
| 18 | Worksheets which are in good condition are treated with more respect than those which too quickly are crumpled , torn or part company with the staples or covering . |
| 19 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 20 | In general , at the bottom end of the management hierarchy , authority must be exercised with more coercion whilst at the top end of the hierarchy , authority is more discreet and immediate subordinates more self-motivated . |
| 21 | But as we saw , this claim is asserted with more fervour than is justified , since the case for reduction is by no means watertight . |
| 22 | The balance sheets and the functions of various financial intermediaries are examined in more detail than they are here in Carter and Partington ( 1984 ) and Struthers and Speight ( 1980 ) . |
| 23 | They will be examined in more detail when we quit regional life and approach the political capital . |
| 24 | His voice was cold and contemptuous ; he could n't have spoken with more disdain if he had tried . |
| 25 | There was a moment 's silence ; then Fand clasped her hands to her face , as if seized by more dismay than she could bear . |
| 26 | Various modern human activities ensure , however , that many ecosystems are assaulted with more nutrient than they can properly deal with . |
| 27 | These questions will be discussed in more detail once the elements of the offence have been outlined . |
| 28 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 29 | In the Western Province , where the police reforms of the 1890s were implemented with more vigour than in Kurunagala , organized stealing did not decline . |
| 30 | We then re-examined our whole hand , studied in more detail than before the costs and revenues from individual products and found , hey presto ! that we had a mixed bag between the good profit earners and a few large loss leaders and so on and so on . |