Example sentences of "have made more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr has made more publicity on this issue than any other councillor . |
| 2 | And what difference will it make to a government which has made more U-turns than a snake ? ’ |
| 3 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 4 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 5 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 6 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 7 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 8 | Surely , with your background , something in the hotel line would have made more sense ? ’ |
| 9 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 10 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 11 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists . |
| 13 | I 've made more piece just that |
| 14 | mm I mean every Government does some good and some bad , but on the whole I think the Conservative have done good , because they 've made more people home owners than ever before |
| 15 | One , for example , had been approached by four or five recognised firms without result but , significantly , had made more progress with an intermediary . |
| 16 | On the heathland of north-west Norfolk many poor men of no military value were ignored until taxed on wages in the subsidy ; above the £1-level people there resembled those who lived farther to the east , except that the outstanding men were great landowners and yeomen , in contrast to the north-eastern district , where peasants were firmly entrenched , usually taking the initiative over enclosure , which had made more progress there . |
| 17 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 18 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 19 | Myra did n't remind her husband that Rosenstein 's butchery had made more business for Zvi . |
| 20 | he 's made more money you can make more money |
| 21 | I have made more progress with the script . |
| 22 | But , most importantly , its just that I have made more friends there . |
| 23 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 24 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 25 | Would the whole story not have made more sense had Jupiter been identified with the Sun , Venus with the Moon , and so on ? |
| 26 | Would n't ‘ To My Daughter ’ have made more sense ? |
| 27 | If the trend continues , 1989 will be the first year in which UK companies have made more acquisitions in continental Europe than in the US . |
| 28 | After all , Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev before him have made more concessions to the western powers than any Russian leader since Lenin in 1918 accepted the Russo-German treaty of Brest-Litovsk . |