Example sentences of "as [v-ing] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As well as opening more boutiques in England , France and Germany , I 'm working on ways of making the clothes cheaper . |
| 2 | Although these work on the same principles as the above they could prove an expensive luxury as well as causing more problems than they solve . |
| 3 | As well as adding more candidates , the draft law allows France 's seven-member privatisation commission to suggest names of investors who could form a ‘ noyau dur ’ , or stable core of shareholders , to protect privatised firms against takeover . |
| 4 | I REFER to the comments made by an anonymous smoker who mistakenly tried to justify smokers as paying more tax indirectly due to higher Government levy on cigarettes . |
| 5 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |
| 6 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 7 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 8 | I also saw poor people as having more sense of community and warmth — as altogether nicer and more ideologically sound ! |
| 9 | If on the contrary , the mind thinks disturbing thoughts , like thinking of another man as having more riches or land , then feelings of envy , resentment and disappointment spread through the mind making the whole body cold and unhappy . |
| 10 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |