Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Principal contenders are rightly given more time than fringe candidates . |
| 2 | Press and television in Africa are generally allowed more freedom of expression than is radio , and one suspects that the reason is that already mentioned : the elitist fear of uneducated people listening to radio and being ‘ misinformed ’ or ‘ confused ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We are already putting more money into free travel for the blind since the previously consistent approach to concessionary fares by borough councils started breaking down in the face of financial pressures ’ , he added . ’ |
| 4 | Here are all my colleagues rushing upstairs with great enthusiasm , diving into the committee room , anxious to get on to curb the ever growing number of rules and regulations and whilst they 're upstairs merrily getting on with it , here we are downstairs passing more things which we say we do n't want to do . |
| 5 | And as people in India have got wealthier , they 're just drinking more tea . |
| 6 | Landlords say they 're increasingly serving more food than drink , especially in country pubs . |
| 7 | We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people . |
| 8 | According to a recent survey , Britain 's recession-hit publishers are still producing more books than any other European country . |
| 9 | If you use ordinary soap and water , you are probably applying more moisturiser than your skin actually needs . |
| 10 | Shoppers are also buying more fruit and vegetables . |
| 11 | Meanwhile students , some of whom carried on regardless , are also demanding more facilities and debt counsellors as part of a ten point crisis campaign . |
| 12 | REDUNDANT executives are now getting more job offers , particularly in south-east England , experts said yesterday . |
| 13 | The fact is that those hospitals south of the border that have achieved trust status are now delivering more patient care , recruiting more consultants and buying more equipment , and improving the service that they provide to the public in their areas . |
| 14 | The partners are now subcontracting more Airbus work to other companies and countries . |
| 15 | Confidence is highest in the South , and with less concern about unemployment and inflation the survey says consumers are now showing more signs of spending . |
| 16 | The big food chains are now showing more interest in buying British , he says but are operating in a competitive environment and need to define their margins and their supply lines . |
| 17 | Certainly the larger supermarkets and retail chains are now exerting more controls over the quality of rations and the mills in which they are produced . |
| 18 | We have done this and are now putting more emphasis on expanded sales to the private sector home market and specific overseas markets , as our recently published results show . |
| 19 | People are even buying more fruit : a greengrocer says his takings are up by £300 a week . |
| 20 | People who devote their lives to looking after an elderly or disabled relative or friend are again demanding more support from the government . |
| 21 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |