Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 2 | And while not everyone can detect the tonal nuances of brass and chrome jackplugs it 's as plain as the selector switch on your ‘ 62 Strat that one mag has more body , more highs and more sustain than a patent-applied-for Shredbucker . |
| 3 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 4 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 5 | Both had made previous flights to Fairbanks on the Irkutsk-Fairbanks ferry run and hoped one day to see more of America than the tundra regions of Alaska . |
| 6 | We should hope that Hughes , having taken his soliloquy , will one day transcribe more of these asides . |
| 7 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 8 | If one form occurs more than its alternants , that is a reason to suspect it is unmarked with respect to them . |
| 9 | In a series , just one item has more energy than its colleagues and emphasises their inertia . |
| 10 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 11 | If this rule change is agreed , we accept that one member has more rights than another . |
| 12 | In this storm about finance , one phenomenon attracts more of the thunder and lightning than any other : the takeover bid , especially the sort that is ‘ hostile ’ to incumbent managers . |
| 13 | Whenever one individual leaves more offspring than another and this capacity is inherited , in time its genes will come to dominate the population gene pool . |
| 14 | Whenever one individual leaves more offspring than another and this capacity is inherited , its genes will in time come to dominate the gene pool . |
| 15 | Matching objects one — to — one is a technique for checking whether one set has more or fewer objects than another , or the same amount . |
| 16 | Essentially the nine conflicts are related by the fact that they involve situations where either one party has more information than another , a state of affairs described by economists as information asymetry ; or where one party has a monopoly power ; indeed the conflict may occur where both these two factors are simultaneously present . |
| 17 | The law does not seek to prohibit all asymmetric trades ( trades where one party has more information than another ) ; nor should it . |
| 18 | Given the difference in the spread of support between the parties , it is possible for one party to get more votes than its opponent party but receive fewer seats . |