Example sentences of "who [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
2 | She made conversation with Bridget , who pressed more gin and lime upon her . |
3 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
4 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
5 | Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill . |
6 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
7 | A consultant who treated more patients would shorten the queue and attract more patients without attracting more resources — more anxiety and no reward or means to do the job . |
8 | For example : a With cash-limited budgets , efficient authorities who treated more patients simply increased their costs , not their revenue ( the efficiency trap ) . |
9 | Unknown to the man who won more downhills than any other racer in history , the local ski patrol spent most of the night clearing snow by hand from the third tee and green at the local golf course in Copper Creek , the highest 18-hole golf course in North America , so that he could play golf on his birthday . |
10 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |
11 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
12 | The people who had more experience used to teach me lots of things . |
13 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
14 | The remaining ten might be useful " when there was no preacher in their own or neighbouring societies provided they would take no step without the advice of those who had more experience than themselves " . |
15 | George , who had more confidence than his elder brother , spoke . |
16 | Brando was no matinée idol heady with wine , or movie star who had more chemistry than talent . |
17 | I do n't know what really happened for I had my eyes closed , lashing out with my sword , whilst my horse , who had more courage than brains , took care of itself . |
18 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
19 | In this aspect she is linked , as I mentioned in Chapter One , with Harriet Finlay Johnson who attached more importance to content than any pioneers since . |
20 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
21 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
22 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
23 | In a way this was a compromise between the people in Britain who wanted more sugar and the established planters in the West Indies who would find the additional competition of new sugar colonies entirely unwelcome . |
24 | " Is n't that a bit selfish ? " chided a colleague whose opinion she respected , and who stood more chance than most of applying the brakes . |