Example sentences of "more [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is those mammals that live more persecuted harried lives that have taken the possibilities of placental development to its ultimate . |
| 2 | Yet for all his diabolical skill , he can no more make this revue than one swallow can make a summer . ’ |
| 3 | Whether it will more influence ordinary citizens in England to join the chorus for withdrawal from Northern Ireland chanted frequently by Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone remains to be seen . |
| 4 | Given the possibility of pre and post-carriage storage of the goods , and the need to extend the bank 's security interest to the sale of the goods upon their arrival , it would make sense to integrate the bill of lading registry with a more encompassing commercial property registry . |
| 5 | Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish ! |
| 6 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Why are n't the insurance companies doing more to curb such tactics ? |
| 8 | Her tone was a little more guarded this time . |
| 9 | Stars & Stripes now shares a first-place tie with Kanza , America 's sister ship , with four victories apiece in the defenders ' semi-final , and Connor said : ‘ We have to beat America once more to assure that destiny 's in our own hands , but we 're going to keep our feet on the ground . ’ |
| 10 | In old villages , the greater bargaining power tended to be with the lord and the larger landowners ; the peasantry lost status as they had to sacrifice more and more to find enough land to feed themselves . |
| 11 | COMPANIES were urged today to do more to provide equal opportunities at work . |
| 12 | They are luckier than , say , Merseyside , which can mobilise in defence of the equally or more hard-hit local interest only the memory of the Beatles , of generations of Scouse comedians and the proud tradition of its rival football teams , while taking care to keep away from anything that reminds its inhabitants too obviously of the divisive colours Orange and Green . |
| 13 | Significantly more EGF positive papillae were found in the normal mucosa ( 81% ) than in the inflamed mucosa ( 42% ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 14 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 15 | Samuel Bamford , the son of a Lancashire weaver , recalled : My poor aunt Elizabeth no more doubted these things , than she did the truth of every word betwixt the two backs of her Bible . |
| 16 | And government could do more to encourage new forms of volunteering , to encourage the most effective use of the money it gives , and to bring together voluntary effort at the local and national level . |
| 17 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 18 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 19 | I believe that there 's an awful lot to be learnt from taking the much more targeted industrial point of view because the research becomes tidier . |
| 20 | But in later years , as he was promoted to more senior posts , he found that he had to travel more and more to oversee fund-raising projects . |
| 21 | It means eating a variety of foods , going easy on fat , sugar and salt , and eating more fibrerich starchy foods like bread , pasta , rice and potatoes . |
| 22 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 23 | Would you like more organized social events , better food tents or what ? |
| 24 | Heinrich and Algernon once more moved imaginary plates from an empty table , staggered under their load into the dining room and served another empty table . |
| 25 | Ten more receive similar help in Colombia and three in Pakistan , while a member of the Rome office successfully applied and studied for an MBA in industrial management . |
| 26 | All guests staying 5 nights or more receive return rail tickets to Padua with lunch included . |
| 27 | Looking at her , swathed in shawls though the room was too warm and the day itself not cold , Wilson had once more felt those twinges of alarm which she resented . |
| 28 | And it is a growth industry because its products , such as plastics , are being used more and more to replace raw materials such as wood , steel or natural fibres . |
| 29 | However , in doing this they also provide the basic opportunity to make happier and more fulfilled wider relationships . |
| 30 | It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies , renew the propaganda war , and once more undertake large-scale petitioning . |