Example sentences of "it [vb -s] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 2 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 4 | Because it involves more things . |
| 5 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 6 | It offers more protection from wind and the centre bay can be used as a cart or tractor shed . |
| 7 | To provide that extra information , it needs more users . |
| 8 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 9 | This is a highly intuitive environment which cuts down on training needs , but it is not to everyone 's taste , and it needs more development work behind the scenes if we have to write bespoke software . |
| 10 | On the one hand claiming Darlington is in such a bad state it needs more Government help , on the other claiming the town is a thriving local centre . |
| 11 | The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas . |
| 12 | I think it needs more time round here , that 's |
| 13 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 14 | The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources . |
| 15 | It is better manned , it has more resources and it is better equipped than any police force in British history . |
| 16 | – 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Like the cold war , it is , as Mary Kaldor has defined it , an imaginary war , only it has more substance . |
| 24 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 25 | It has more staying power than a quick outburst of rage . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It has more facilities than the package we used to use and costs a fraction of the price . |
| 28 | It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |