Example sentences of "and [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 2 | Tadpoles grew up and became more frogs . |
| 3 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 4 | Thank you to all Q.T 's who have supported the Draw , particularly those who requested and sold more tickets . |
| 5 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 6 | And made more tadpoles . |
| 7 | The creative and talented nation that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution and produced more inventions and patents per head of population than any other country in the world , had turned its back on industry and commerce . |
| 8 | Other studies guided by a similar spirit of fidelity have employed the verbatim method and produced more coherence . |
| 9 | Finally , Marx saw that as bourgeois society became more complex and produced more group interests , so the state machinery was bound to expand in order to bring them under a measure of control : |
| 10 | The Deacon process used a cheaper catalyst ( copper chloride ) and recovered more chlorine ; it remained industrially important for five decades , though its adoption was initially delayed owing to its complexity . |
| 11 | He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils . |
| 12 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 13 | He turned north and searched for more openings and found more troops . |
| 14 | They strode down and found more news already arriving . |
| 15 | Mayor David Dinkins expressed his sadness over the incident and promised more resources to tackle the hundreds of unlicensed clubs thought to be operating in the city , many of which were violating safety regulations . |
| 16 | The country 's suspension from the US system of generalized special preferences ( GSP ) ( which allowed underdeveloped countries to export products to the US duty free or with low tariffs ) was to continue until Paraguay improved its record on labour rights and provided more assistance with US anti-drug efforts . |
| 17 | That sent England crashing from a promising 182 for three to 207 all out and provided more ammunition for the snipers who claim Pakistan ‘ doctor ’ the ball . |
| 18 | He selected Ellis , grandson of Red Grizzly Bear , a choice which angered Lawyer and Joseph and created more problems than it solved . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the injustice of adopting one policy for the public sector and another for the private , such tactics have often proved counterproductive and created more battles and delays , ultimately making sites more difficult to sell . |
| 20 | These strategies introduced more overheads , created more interfaces , increased the complexity of the organization — and created more uncertainty . |
| 21 | When I first came to the Commission , cases like these caused more anxiety and provoked more anger and complaint than any others we dealt with . |
| 22 | And because discs were on the market for a longer time , and attracted more investment , there are a correspondingly large number of ‘ freaks ’ around . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 24 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 25 | The hospice staff have now completed their first full week in their new home at Harewood House and received more donations of furniture and equipment , including a fridge from Mr and Mrs Haynes who have already donated a freezer . |
| 26 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 27 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 28 | The sixth form grew , and deserved more stimulus . |
| 29 | We felt that our arguments ‘ hold up ’ extremely well and deserved more recognition in the outcome since they answered at least two of the board 's main arguments against the reduction of differentials . |
| 30 | On March 12th the Volynsky Regiment mutinied and added more weight to the revolutionary machine and they broke into the arsenal in Petrograd and handed out weapons . |