Example sentences of "with more [noun sg] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a 21st minute moment of magic which delighted the home fans and seemed to stun Middlesbrough , who had started the game with more purpose and menace . |
| 2 | Carrington , a colonial , possibly in love , detached , watched all this with a definite slight unease and hoped the battle in the field was conducted with more competence and panache , not to say goodwill . |
| 3 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 4 | Liberals favour the protection of human rights together with more participation and decentralization in government . |
| 5 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 6 | If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited , we might more easily and ‘ with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance ’ of what lies beyond the horizon , and ‘ employ [ our ] … thoughts and discourse , with more advantage and satisfaction ’ about what lies within our reach . |
| 7 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 8 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 9 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 10 | Then she had to say hello to Mike , then her mother again , with more laughter and tears and a promise that she would go out . |
| 11 | The fact that disruptive behaviour often leads to considerable stress , anxiety and absenteeism suggests that it is all the more important that schools tackle the issue with more clarity and imagination . |
| 12 | The two families began to exchange visits with more frequency and Jonadab and his youngest son were , on the surface at least , reconciled . |
| 13 | Eventually four relatives of Anwar 's turned up with more drink and food , and gifts of cloth and pots . |
| 14 | The company has also announced a revision of the HP Lab/Ux Lims system that provides users with more sample-tracking and information management capability at a lower price . |
| 15 | With more spirit and élan on the attack than the dogged Britisher , he was also much more impressionable in adversity , altogether less capable of the kind of orderly , defensive retreat such as Britain 's soldiers have been accustomed to during so much of her military history . |
| 16 | Arrangements are currently under way for the University to provide the Graduates Association with more help and assistance for the future and to use the lists of the alumni that have recently been compiled , to help them enlist new members . |
| 17 | The Hero is Sylvia McNair , and she brings a distinct gain , for there is more tenderness in her ‘ Je vais le voir ’ than in Eda-Pierre 's singing , and the joyous mood of ‘ Il me revient fidèle ’ comes with more conviction and strength of contrast . |
| 18 | Sussex University was born , with more glitter and publicity than had attended the more earnest first days of Keele , and with a declared mission to redraw the map of knowledge , to challenge the hegemony of the traditional subject , to celebrate a new scientific culture . |
| 19 | Of course there are cards on the market with more memory and processor power to drive expensive monitors at high resolutions ( like 1280 by 1024 ) and 256 colours but they cost well over £1000 . |
| 20 | The club also plan to cover the 35ft high by 140ft wide mural with more sponsorship and advertising deals to help recoup the cost . |
| 21 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 22 | Hopefully we shall be back in the autumn with more news and views to share with you . |
| 23 | Whenever she did this successfully , of course , I 'd reward her handsomely with more food and words of praise . |
| 24 | Most importantly , WASL will be fundraising for a new home which will provide the organisation with more shelf and storage space , exhibition area , meeting rooms and more basic facilities . |
| 25 | Lady Elizabeth Hoby was a striking woman in more ways than one ; her portrait seems to endow her with more strength and resolution than actual good looks . |
| 26 | The opening Maple Leaf Rag is an unfortunately hard-driven introduction to the set , but matters improve thereafter with more subtlety and refinement in the less fraught pieces . |
| 27 | Cover them with more compost and water lightly . |
| 28 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |
| 29 | Schoolboys play with more aggression and pace than in Britain . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the British Property Federation has also produced its own form which , not surprisingly , seeks to promote new thought processes by giving the employer maximum flexibility , with more risk and responsibility being passed to the design and build team . |