Example sentences of "more [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas . |
| 2 | The score was 3– 1 at halftime with two more added in the closing ten minutes of the match . |
| 3 | Some outlying villages were still under several feet of water yesterday and weathermen warned of more to come in the holiday weekend . |
| 4 | And traditionally , I find , British parents tend to erm say on the one hand we 'll let the school get on and do their professional job — I find it quite depressing they do n't ask for more say in the organisation , but they do demand , quite rightly , the right to criticise when things go wrong . |
| 5 | and we were geared more to progress in the education system where the industrial change in the other countries did n't happen at the same time and that they needed now a younger ag a younger age group to keep the , the industrial system going |
| 6 | At the thirteenth count , 16 more transferred from the surplus of Brady ( FF ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from eleven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S and McA . |
| 7 | Er was on a smaller scale of course and more done with the hand than machine . |
| 8 | How many more died in the exporting country or after the quarantine ? |
| 9 | He looked a genuine danger from the home turn , but mistakes at the last two — a terrible one at the final obstacle — let him down , and he had no more to give on the flat . |
| 10 | Their antagonism , which had much more to do with a clash of temperaments than with deep issues of principle , convulsed the Company and drew national political factions into supporting one side or the other . |
| 11 | I suspect that the reason for a terminus in that town has more to do with the presence of several bonded warehouses than with objective computer modelling . |
| 12 | The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation . |
| 13 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 14 | No doubt its humorous common name has more to do with the countryman 's enthusiasm for worrying the gullible , than with the local wise woman 's magical powers . |
| 15 | In Gower 's case at least , these failings may have more to do with the way the government sought to conduct its review of investor protection : ostensibly on the basis of the talents of one man . |
| 16 | They have argued that most crime is petty and that the increase in recorded crime is more to do with the public 's decreased tolerance than anything else : |
| 17 | In fact the erm er the , the actual agenda was far more to do with the price of oil than it was to do with er who ruled Kuwait . |
| 18 | Add to this the development in artificial lighting where the emphasis tends to be on cost saving and it is not surprising to find that this preference has more to do with the building professional 's training than satisfying the needs of the occupants . |
| 19 | For Cubo , who teaches history , the causes of World War One have more to do with the battle over markets and raw materials than with the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand ( the classical explanation that children are offered from Melbourne to Montreal ) . |
| 20 | The abolition was widely resisted , and was seen as having more to do with the government 's dislike of local policies , particularly those of the GLC , than with questions of how best to manage public administration . |
| 21 | It is much more to do with the work itself . |
| 22 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 23 | As for the LPO , no-one was quite clear ; some researchers thought it was primarily an ‘ output ’ region , coordinating motor responses such as pecking ; others saw it as more to do with the bird 's emotional responses , which would certainly include fear and distaste . |
| 24 | Perhaps such oversights have more to do with the fact that we would prefer to forget . |
| 25 | It 's er more to do with the feeling of , it 's like filling gaps erm |
| 26 | That this radicalism was contained may have had more to do with the strength of the State in the West , together with the size , cohesion and resilience of anti-socialist groups among the middle classes and peasantry , than with any natural tendency for the working class to become ‘ integrated ’ and its aspirations attenuated . |
| 27 | If the former administrator had gone mad , then the passion that possessed him had more to do with the re-establishment of the New Thinking in a new place , rather than any desire for vengeance . |
| 28 | It is all to do with , more to do with the food hygiene and the food preparations that 's causing the problems , and if that 's sorted out , we do n't need irradiation . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's more to do with the term ‘ direct mail ’ , ’ says one senior account director at a direct marketing agency . |
| 30 | In any case , I can have nothing more to do with the investigation . ’ |