Example sentences of "it [verb] more of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 2 | It needs more of a quick flick of the wrist . |
| 3 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression ; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind ; it has more of the ‘ poet 's eye in a fine frenzy rolling ’ than I ever witnessed . |
| 5 | Also worried are Taiwan and other neighbouring countries , which wonder what China will do when it has more of its own expensive new toys . |
| 6 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 7 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 8 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 9 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 10 | Good Guys , it gets more of outrageous every week , you ca n't believe a word of it ! |
| 11 | AFRC 's change in direction , forced on it by the government 's withdrawal from ‘ near market ’ research , is allowing it to do more of this exciting fundamental research . |
| 12 | Treatment at home has advantages for some patients , although it requires more of the therapist 's time in travelling . |
| 13 | It requires more of a person , but it gives back more self-satisfaction . |
| 14 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 15 | Silicon Graphics will buy a 15% equity stake in Tata Elxsi on undisclosed terms and will license it to manufacture more of its RISC-based servers and graphics workstations in India . |
| 16 | This is perhaps unfortunate , because it throws more of a burden onto plausibility checking ( and makes evaluations such as Walker 's rather more difficult to carry out ) . |
| 17 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 18 | In a global context , it means more of the same system that increased the number of the world 's poor from 944 million in 1970 to 1,156 million in 1985 ; the number who are illiterate from 842 million to 907 million ; and the number of malnourished from 460 million to 512 million . |
| 19 | It means more of them survive . |
| 20 | They use instinct and spontaneity and when they practise something , they do so for the enjoyment it produces and thus it becomes more of a game than a practice . |
| 21 | It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned . |
| 22 | if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world |
| 23 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 24 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 25 | It induced more of an aesthetic high than anything . |