Example sentences of "they more [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to admire people for how they hold themselves and what they say and then blame them more for being found out than for what they do . |
| 2 | It also gave them more of an opportunity to chat . |
| 3 | I only wish we could show them more of it ’ . |
| 4 | I would like to give them more of my time . |
| 5 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 6 | Sell them more of our products . |
| 7 | Many people would refer to them more as superhuman than as divine characters . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea is that anglers should be far more aware of the resource they are using and it should be the job of the IFM to teach them more about the fish , ’ said IFM official Robin Templeton . |
| 9 | All the family grew more and more irritated as Frank interrupted every conversation they tried to have with Terry , saying , ‘ You 're not telling that right , Ted , ’ or ‘ I could tell them more about that , Ted ’ . |
| 10 | He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside . |
| 11 | If the war brought them more into line with popular feeling , then it was not because they had changed , but because popular opinion ( or at least the Liberal-Labour part of it ) had at last seen the light . |
| 12 | However , I understand that the finishing line has been re-aligned and that being the case bookmakers on the rails next to the course will be moved nearer to the winning post , bringing them more into contact with punters . |
| 13 | The provodnitsy , as well as the other passengers , seemed to regard them more with sorrow than contempt . |
| 14 | Erm a fully mobile workable skeleton , and th it 's a deprived area of Nottingham and they 've apparently been able to teach them more with this skeleton over this past six months than than any other kids in the school . |
| 15 | They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | If Laura noticed any of her staff wearing clothes in a poor state of repair she would look into that person 's wages and family circumstances and see if there was a way of paying them more without upsetting the hierarchy . |
| 17 | This seems to them more like a building site than a City office . |
| 18 | The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing . |
| 19 | It tries to raise their aspirations , alter their attitudes towards science , technology and computers , to ‘ widen ’ their horizons — i.e. to make them more like boys . |
| 20 | There 's wild men out there , Karen , some of them more like wild animals , and not all of them are Catholics , believe you me . |
| 21 | If so , would you explain them more in terms of : |
| 22 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 23 | The hope is to give students an insight into them reading process and involve them more in thinking about their learning . |
| 24 | Perhaps we should educate them more in the ways of the world ? |
| 25 | Nor did Greek interest in Persia cease after the fifth century : a apart from Plato , several fourth-century commentators had good things to say , like the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( xix Bartoletti ) , who comments on the way Persian commanders deliberately withheld payments from ( Greek ) mercenaries ; this would put them more in their power . |
| 26 | The operating departments have been restructured to make them more in keeping with the state of the present market . |
| 27 | On the contrary , he concerned himself with them more in these years than before 1962 . |
| 28 | It must cost them more in time in getting that penny out you know |
| 29 | Are they more in favour of realism as they perceive it and out of touch with idealism ? |
| 30 | Were they more like , or unlike the Armenians who are there now ? |