Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb -s] more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) .
2 Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student .
3 I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time .
4 it is not proud that she has more Bible knowledge than he does .
5 While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him .
6 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
7 There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable .
8 We can retort that the city has more miles of canals than Venice ; that it has more parkland than any other city in Western Europe ; that it has a world-famous symphony orchestra , a marvellous Art Gallery ; that it … the list goes on .
9 The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts .
10 If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception .
11 The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas .
12 But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished .
13 In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that .
14 These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : .
15 It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is .
16 As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy .
17 It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage .
18 ‘ The filly was desperate , even falling over walking on to the gallops , ’ Pipe explained , adding that he puts more work into training In-Keeping than three normal horses .
19 Hart has formally been nominated by the Auckland union , but he has informed Auckland and several other unions who support him that he wants more time to decide whether he really wants the toil and trouble of being the All Black coach .
20 Mr Gavron cheerfully admits that he has more staff than he needs to handle the currently depressed workload .
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