Example sentences of "have [verb] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the level of political debate the message has also proved widely attractive , though with the qualification that whilst the political right has tended to adopt the common form , the left has preferred the more acute form of de-industrialisation . |
| 2 | Bruce Cumings has examined the evidence as fairly as is feasible and has discounted the more grandiose claims , such as Kim 's participation in the battle for Stalingrad . |
| 3 | In this respect , interest in the celebrated networks , managerial staff who receive technical support from RX but whose contract is defined solely by time or task , has overshadowed the more important alterations to the relationships between RX and its supplier network ( Judkins et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | White 's build-up has proved the more effective and he should now have won with the simple 31 . |
| 5 | And I suspect also that from time to time the director feels that he has to placate the more hard-nosed and less imaginative of his many paymasters by producing something that could be regarded as promoting trade . |
| 6 | But I wish he 'd omitted the more salacious details . ’ |
| 7 | His wife Anne says that he DID drink in Saudi , but would never have committed the more serious offence of running a still and selling its produce . |
| 8 | Set against these deficiencies is the fact that psychiatry — if only by dint of the accumulated experience that comes from having to observe the more unusual among us — has developed a ‘ language of symptoms ’ that can prove useful in throwing the features of that deviance into high relief . |
| 9 | Such fields could have attracted the more plodding Webb , too , who slowly worked her way from relatively High Society — the only one of nine sisters to marry ‘ down ’ — into social research , the Fabian powerhouse and the formation of social policy in committee rather than cabinet . |
| 10 | There will be a limiting distance within which the more massive of the two bodies will disrupt the other , and a smaller limiting distance within which , had it survived , the less massive body would have disrupted the more massive body . |
| 11 | The new episcopate , the troops of Opus Dei , Comunione e Liberazione and the like , reinforcements maybe from Poland and some parts of the third world , will have made the more liberal vistas of Vatican II and its immediate aftermath just another brief aberration within Catholic history comparable to the conciliar movement of the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 13 | Not only must the firm contemplating selling overseas be versed in the economics , law and politics of a foreign country , but it will also have to understand the more subtle , less tangible , meanings , values and languages of the culture itself . |
| 14 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 15 | If the recognition skills are not well-developed , then the decoding process may have to take the more indirect route , employing the mediating phonological stage . |
| 16 | To judge from election results , the Tories appear to have become the more popular party by the early eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Public sector higher education institutions ( such as polytechnics ) have a similar , though not identical hierarchy of posts , but they are too recently established to have acquired the more colourful historic positions and titles of the universities . |
| 18 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 19 | In his Circle Limit series , the Dutch artist M. C. Escher borrowed a version of Poincaré 's model from H. S. M. Coxeter , professor of mathematics at Toronto University , and embellished its symmetries , just as elsewhere he had embellished the more worldly symmetries of the familiar Euclidean plane ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 20 | Sussex University was born , with more glitter and publicity than had attended the more earnest first days of Keele , and with a declared mission to redraw the map of knowledge , to challenge the hegemony of the traditional subject , to celebrate a new scientific culture . |
| 21 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 22 | They had made the more usually British mistake of asking ‘ What shall we do ? ’ rather than the standard American approach of ‘ What has to be done to achieve our objectives ? ’ |
| 23 | Averell Harriman , from his unique experience of Anglo-American relations over more than a generation , observed that while Roosevelt and Churchill had made the more far-reaching decisions , they were much less close than Macmillan and Kennedy . |
| 24 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 25 | For some time after the battle of Nechtansmere the Picts had remained the more powerful of the two . |
| 26 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 27 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 28 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 29 | He also had to make the more crucial choice of whether he wished to become a muderris or a kadi : at this stage of his career he would , of course , become a kasabat kadi . |
| 30 | Sinton 's midfield role , alongside the flourishing Ray Wilkins , who has enjoyed an outstanding season in the twilight years of his career , has been complemented by the emergence of younger players like Ian Holloway , whose performances have ousted the more experienced Simon Barker and Andrew Impey on the right of midfield . |