Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 2 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 3 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 4 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 5 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 6 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 7 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 8 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 9 | The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources . |
| 10 | It is better manned , it has more resources and it is better equipped than any police force in British history . |
| 11 | It has more routes than Shepherds Crag , ranging from VD to E6 , and is a popular wet weather venue for those retreating from the hills . |
| 12 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price . |
| 17 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 18 | It manifests itself in diamonds as well as in coal , and it has more compounds than any other element . |
| 19 | On the surface it has no problem with it — the technologies at issue NCR either has or is moving towards — but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 20 | On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 21 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 22 | If it loses more customers than expected , the value of its franchise declines . |
| 23 | It kills more people than any other type of cancer and 90% of these deaths are caused by smoking . |
| 24 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 25 | As it happens , the bass part has been designed so that the result is relatively consonant and relaxed , but it would have been equally easy ( as we have shown above ) to make it contribute more dissonance and tension : |
| 26 | Can I put it another way , has it got more benefits than dis- 5 Erm , D |
| 27 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 28 | ‘ It reaches more people than other media too , ’ she suggested , never averse to singing the praises of radio . |
| 29 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 30 | family tendency , it affects more girls than boys , many more girls than boys , having said that Lord Byron had erm congenital dislocated hips . |