Example sentences of "it [vb -s] more [noun sg] " 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 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 5 | It offers more protection from wind and the centre bay can be used as a cart or tractor shed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas . |
| 10 | I think it needs more time round here , that 's |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources . |
| 13 | – 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Like the cold war , it is , as Mary Kaldor has defined it , an imaginary war , only it has more substance . |
| 19 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 20 | It has more staying power than a quick outburst of rage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 26 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |
| 27 | It contains more information . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |