Example sentences of "that it [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 2 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 3 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 4 | And it was the one time that it mattered more than anything else . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 7 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 8 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 13 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 14 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 15 | Devotees of this label can rest assured that it retains more than anyone 's fair share of glitzkrieg . |
| 16 | We do n't pressurise the horse so that it gets more and more upset : remember , it will remember ! |
| 17 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 18 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 19 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) rightly said that it costs more to collect that contribution than it yields . |
| 21 | BUYER : The problem with your tractor is that it costs more than your competition . |
| 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 | By recognising that it has more to learn from Hanson than to fear . |
| 24 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 29 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |
| 30 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |