Example sentences of "more [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triffin 's theoretical analysis gained more credence when the US balance of payments appeared to move into overall deficit . |
| 2 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 3 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 4 | There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment . |
| 5 | These sites together recorded almost 100,000 more birds than the average for the past five years . |
| 6 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 7 | All the prisons which , having experienced riots , were examined by Lord Justice Woolf held more prisoners than the certified normal accommodation figure . |
| 8 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 9 | ‘ Ease up on the populace , creeps , ’ said I with more heroism than an entire Audi Murphy season . |
| 10 | There are many reasons for this , but it is mainly because the infilled ditch contains more moisture than the surrounding dry soil . |
| 11 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 12 | If it does come on stream , each theatre would be able to carry out roughly ten per cent more operations than the 1930s theatres the suite will replace . |
| 13 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 14 | I could see Myrtle Augee , Mary Berkeley and Tessa Sanderson , all waving and shouting , seeming to make more noise than the rest of the stadium . |
| 15 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 16 | It went faster and with more noise than the roundabouts for little children with engines and ducks and bicycles fixed on . |
| 17 | Eric was on the bench , the game was a bit grim , but the Leeds were making more noise than the Spurs . |
| 18 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 19 | But they 're not very evenly spread — the Army , as the largest service , has let more contracts than the Navy or RAF and has been much more positive about the process . |
| 20 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 21 | The theme of the day was : A Labour vote is a vote for more recession and a Liberal Democrat vote is a Labour vote in disguise . |
| 22 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 23 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 24 | Even the official television news broadcast comments by a building worker that people need ‘ a little ’ more freedom and the shops should have ‘ a little ’ more in them . |
| 25 | A second charge over the side brought no more response than the first , and a rising moon showed up the wild seascape . |
| 26 | This year it is anticipated that more requests than every will be made . |
| 27 | Public sector data users have generally had considerably more requests than the private sector , which conforms with evidence put forward at the committee stages of the Data Protection Bill that the public sector is viewed as offering the greatest threat to individual liberties . |
| 28 | One important theoretical issue arises from this : Cable 's arguments compel him on occasion to scan lines yielding more syllables than the spelling might indicate ( p. 79 ) , and he does confess to an " agnosticism " concerning the status of " the text " . |
| 29 | We have much property , more estates and a great deal of business . |
| 30 | A Labour Government would roll over on their back and uncritically accept any proposal from the European Community in order to prove that they are more communautaire than the Conservatives . |