Example sentences of "more [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Balbinder clearly made more progress in a small group where he could have a lot of attention , and where all worked at the same pace , this could be an answer . |
| 2 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 3 | At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased . |
| 4 | If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment . |
| 5 | The saturated fat in a diet , more importantly , stimulates the liver to produce more cholesterol in a form that is easily deposited onto the linings of the arteries . |
| 6 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 7 | By the time a new battery had been fitted , and she had wasted some more minutes with a mechanic who appeared not to want to go home , it was twenty past six before Merrill reached her flat . |
| 8 | ‘ We have seen yet more trail-blazers in a man 's world this year , ’ said Ann Swain , national president of the federation . |
| 9 | On the evenings when the three of them went abroad together , the worst of the heat over , Wilson felt more content than at any other time , more part of a family . |
| 10 | Advocacy of the agrarian community as the manifestation of the traditional Japanese spirit led agrarianist views to become more and more part of a broader nationalist ideology . |
| 11 | ‘ The workshop certainly made people feel more part of a team and demonstrated the power of the networking approach . ’ |
| 12 | The engine was rebuilt and was run four more hours on a test stand before it was mounted in the aircraft with then , ten hours total running time . |
| 13 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 14 | Stress has to do with the relative prominence of one or more syllables in a word , phrase or sentence , in comparison to other surrounding syllables . |
| 15 | The ULA is already preparing plans to ballot 110 more lecturers on a possible work to rule . |
| 16 | Work on these lines has already cleared up many of the mysteries of the Pleistocene and holds more hope of a final elucidation than any other method known . |
| 17 | I tell you , I 've seen more variety in a tin of sardines . |
| 18 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 19 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 20 | The sequence of clinical allocations is such that the junior may have more experience in a particular area than a senior student . |
| 21 | Its aim was to improve safety , comfort , privacy and the quality of facilities in hostels and to encourage more groups with a shared interest , such as wildlife . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , he wo n't do any more damage for a while . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have some more champagne in a moment . |
| 24 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 25 | He feared the move was often an attempt to cram more houses onto a site . |
| 26 | ‘ To a man without a job a few more houses on a field or a few foreign accents in the local pub seem a price worth paying for prosperity . |
| 27 | Sir Cyril Taylor , the Government 's adviser on CTCs , who had earlier been successful in persuading Mr Baker to commit more government funds to the 20 schools , had been hoping to get more money for a new round of schools . |
| 28 | In the end , EGBT were willing to put in more money for a more environmentally-friendly mode of working , and we agreed that the planings would be off-loaded at the end of the path , and then ferried in on dumper trucks . |
| 29 | I would like more money for a few more things though |
| 30 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |