Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | – Taken all in all , then , the land is intrinsically more intricate than the oceans ; it has more variation , from time to time and from place to place . |
| 32 | It has more routes than Shepherds Crag , ranging from VD to E6 , and is a popular wet weather venue for those retreating from the hills . |
| 33 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 34 | At the end of the second year the exercise is done again , and at the end of the third year , when it has more significance … bearing in mind their choice of subjects for the fourth and fifth year . |
| 35 | A tiger with extra-sharp teeth can kill prey more efficiently than a normal tiger ; hence it has more offspring ; hence it passes on , vertically , more copies of the gene that makes sharp teeth . |
| 36 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 37 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 38 | Like the cold war , it is , as Mary Kaldor has defined it , an imaginary war , only it has more substance . |
| 39 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 40 | It has more staying power than a quick outburst of rage . |
| 41 | We can retort that the city has more miles of canals than Venice ; that it has more parkland than any other city in Western Europe ; that it has a world-famous symphony orchestra , a marvellous Art Gallery ; that it … the list goes on . |
| 42 | It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price . |
| 43 | It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world . |
| 44 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 45 | It can be easily executed from either the leading foot or the back foot , but a roundhouse kick delivered from the rear leg is the more powerful , it has more time to gather speed . |
| 46 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 47 | The Poyser monograph on The Barn Owl was published at the same time ; it has more words , contains many photo graphs and even has a colour plate , yet is £15 cheaper . |
| 48 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 49 | It manifests itself in diamonds as well as in coal , and it has more compounds than any other element . |
| 50 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |
| 51 | It contains more moves , needs a higher level of skill and turns your centre-line clean away from the opponent . |
| 52 | It contains more information . |
| 53 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 54 | On the surface it has no problem with it — the technologies at issue NCR either has or is moving towards — but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 55 | On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 56 | Has it attracted more custom ? |
| 57 | And it holds more luggage in the 15.4cu ft boot . |
| 58 | It casts more doubt on Wallace 's conviction in 1981 of the killing of his friend , antique dealer Jonathan Lewis . |
| 59 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 60 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |