Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 2 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 3 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 12 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |
| 13 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 14 | The simplicity of the statement , and the bravery … in a way , it requires more courage than making something more ‘ experimental ’ . ’ |
| 15 | You see , it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have . |
| 16 | It looked more silver than gold on this dull , overcast day . |
| 17 | It deserves more hype than it needs . |
| 18 | It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him . |
| 19 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 20 | First , it gives more space than is usual to money . |
| 21 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 22 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 23 | Owing to Penguin 's prolific output during 1918 and 1939 , the period which formed the baseline from which paper ration allowances were calculated , it had more paper than most at its disposal during the war years . |
| 24 | It claims more originality than it packs , but it is still a primer in the gap between actual virtue , and the official kind . |
| 25 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |