Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since 1981 the one consistent response to urban unrest has been the provision of more resources , more training , and more equipment to the police . |
| 2 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Lamont is not happy because he has been the subject of more criticism and speculation over the past three months than most Ministers suffer in a lifetime . |
| 4 | The outcome has been the imposition of more sentences at the higher end of the punishment tariff over and above the changes in the volume of crime . |
| 5 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
| 6 | But it may still prove to be the route to more jobs |
| 7 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 8 | The correlation of fourth child and strong relationship goals appears to be the result of more relationships as a child and the greater number of ‘ parent ’ roles in mother , father and older brother and sister . |
| 9 | As the Whigs gradually began to retreat from their erstwhile espousal of populist causes , the Tories increasingly appeared to be the party with more to offer ordinary people . |
| 10 | One of the many benefits of this proposal will be the readiness of more defendants to plead guilty , thus reducing the length of the trau matic process . |
| 11 | And by 1874 , Richard Fynes , a historian sympathetic to the miners could write : ‘ Experience , however , proved that [ the lamps ] were the most deadly instrument ever devised in mining operations and were the cause of more sacrifice of human life than ever had occurred before . ’ |
| 12 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 13 | But the longer the war goes on , the greater is the likelihood of more such tragedies . |
| 14 | This is the text from More Poems , where it is simply entitled " DIFFUGERE NIVES , Horace : Odes iv 7 " : This poem might best be read alongside Gladstone 's version published a few years earlier , a conjunction of Victorian styles in which Housman 's poem comes off fairly well . |
| 15 | Is the seeking of more and greater wealth ( greed ) a reason for tramping on compassion and humanity ? |
| 16 | Put another way , even without a change in the electoral system there is the prospect of more " pacts " of the kind which existed between Liberals and Labour between 1977 and 1978 . |
| 17 | Another possibility is the introduction of more ‘ flexibility ’ so that a person could retire between certain ages and draw a reduced pension . |
| 18 | During the 1980s , the NUT in particular seemed , at times , to oppose all education reform on principle ; its main prescription for educational problems was the pumping of more money into the system . |
| 19 | The Queen 's arrival at the New Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes was the beginning of more than just another royal visit . |
| 20 | And there was the promise of more to come . |
| 21 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 22 | De Gaulle showed , in a press conference on 9 September , that his most serious concern was the introduction of more majority voting in the Community in future and that this was where he most wanted changes . |
| 23 | Crucial to the Boyds ' plan was the introduction of more American mining techniques to boost production and bring down costs . |
| 24 | This was the situation for more than half of the official primary season ! |