Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 3 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 4 | It offers more protection from wind and the centre bay can be used as a cart or tractor shed . |
| 5 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 6 | The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas . |
| 7 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 8 | It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world . |
| 9 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 10 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 11 | And it holds more luggage in the 15.4cu ft boot . |
| 12 | It casts more doubt on Wallace 's conviction in 1981 of the killing of his friend , antique dealer Jonathan Lewis . |
| 13 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 14 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 15 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 16 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |
| 17 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |
| 18 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 19 | It gets more money from the European Community than anybody else , but despite this its economic performance has deteriorated alarmingly . |
| 20 | The council has warned that unless it gets more funding from Central Government , further job losses can be expected next year . |
| 21 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 22 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 23 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 24 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 25 | Historical biography may be hard to write , but it draws more readers to history than any other genre . |
| 26 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 27 | It meant more bread for the hungry , higher wages , and fewer hours of work . |
| 28 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 29 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
| 30 | Staff at St Tiggywinkles say the holiday season is bad news for wildlife because it means more cars in the countryside . |