Example sentences of "it [vb past] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 2 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 3 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 4 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 5 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 6 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 7 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 8 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 9 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 10 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 11 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |
| 12 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 13 | You see , it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have . |
| 14 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 15 | It looked more silver than gold on this dull , overcast day . |
| 16 | It meant more bread for the hungry , higher wages , and fewer hours of work . |
| 17 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 18 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 19 | It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him . |
| 20 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 21 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 22 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |
| 23 | It said more evidence was needed , and added : ‘ The information upon which the Tomlinson report based its recommendations was wholly inadequate . ’ |
| 24 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 25 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 26 | Owing to Penguin 's prolific output during 1918 and 1939 , the period which formed the baseline from which paper ration allowances were calculated , it had more paper than most at its disposal during the war years . |
| 27 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 28 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 29 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |