Example sentences of "more [noun] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For five more minutes they ploughed the sky . |
| 2 | It is usually the case that the more senior people are , the more meetings they have to attend . |
| 3 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 4 | On balance , the more respondents knew about biotechnology , the more misgivings they had about its impact . |
| 5 | The more shit they throw over at the Jerries the better . |
| 6 | The more money they make the better for them . |
| 7 | But you see , the more money they had , the more they had to share I suppose with M |
| 8 | Just a little bit more money they wanted then he shoots off home . |
| 9 | On the political side , Taiwanese worry that the more money they invest in China , the more vulnerable they will be to manipulation by the Chinese government . |
| 10 | See what more money they want out of him he 'll scream . |
| 11 | Whereas the support the farmers received right , has always been coupled to production , so the more they produce , the more support they get , the higher , the higher their incomes . |
| 12 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 13 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 14 | And on a more le local level you 're quite right the better trained people there are , the more they , the happier they feel the more work they have , the more job satisfaction they have . |
| 15 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 16 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 17 | Perhaps she could have continued the conversation by offering to move the boxes or asking them how much more room they needed , and how it could be found . |
| 18 | Will my hon. Friend make it clear that , according to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , VAT is progressive in its impact , given that the more people spend , the more tax they pay ? |
| 19 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 20 | And the more deals they get , the bigger they become . |
| 21 | The more Japanese they are , the more criticism they attract , both locally and nationally . |
| 22 | I du n no , the older they get the more trouble they seem ter be . |
| 23 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
| 24 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 25 | The more games they play the more likely they are to win nothing . |
| 26 | Within reason , the more choice they have the better . |
| 27 | Consider again the natural harmonic series ( mentioned in Chapter 10 , ‘ Free Diatonicism ’ ) : the most consonant intervals are in the low registers , well apart , and as intervals become more dissonant they move into higher registers , where dissonance is hardly noticed . |
| 28 | The more nitrogen they have available , the better marine plants will grow , and as they grow they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . |
| 29 | Is n't Compact going to be one more thing they introduce before they 've worked it out ? |
| 30 | It was just one more thing they had never actually talked about . |