Example sentences of "more [noun] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done . |
| 32 | There are more restaurants than anywhere outside London . |
| 33 | Any realistic model should incorporate more elements than simply the relative importance of leading officers and councillors , otherwise a distorted and simplistic picture of power inside local authorities will emerge . |
| 34 | More countries than ever now have emissions legislation requiring the fitment of autocatalysts and our manufacturing operations enjoyed record volumes . |
| 35 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |
| 36 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 37 | So that the split may well have been that er he was gon na to do a lot more work than perhaps the er civil engineering design group . |
| 38 | The best records required more skill than just stompin' around . |
| 39 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 40 | This is a country that can support a lot more natives if properly settled . |
| 41 | The latter is less efficient in producing a water supply , leading to more consumption than otherwise , but it may be a relatively efficient way of ensuring an equal chance of access to it . |
| 42 | And even in the wider social world of adult intercourse , language clearly has many more functions than simply sending information . |
| 43 | We are doing more functions than ever and we have also had a lot more visitors from America . ’ |
| 44 | The Zoological Gardens are currently being re-developed into one of the most modern in Europe , and now attract more visitors than ever before . |
| 45 | Often there are more obligations than just these . |
| 46 | When Dustin returned , he fluffed more lines than before . |
| 47 | There would , in other words , be more workers as well as healthier workers , adding to the wealth of the country through their labour . |
| 48 | More autocratic and more absentee than before . |
| 49 | And there 's more wine as well . |
| 50 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 51 | There is more need than ever for employers and colleges to work together to meet the needs of providing sufficient well qualified operatives , supervisors and managers for the industry . |
| 52 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 53 | Suffice it to say that the offence can now be committed in many more places than before . |
| 54 | Another way to get the flavour of Japan , but requiring a little more courage than merely eating in a local café , is to stay in a Japanese-style hotel . |
| 55 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 56 | This is especially encouraging when , at a time of particular strain on our domestic budgets , there are more charities than ever making demands on the pounds on our pockets . |
| 57 | Suppose by reorganizing production it was possible to produce at point B to the north-east of A. If David and Susie assess their own utility by the quantity of goods they themselves receive , and if they would each rather have more goods than less , B is a better allocation than A since both David and Susie get more . |
| 58 | More farmers than ever before now own their farms . |
| 59 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 60 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |