Example sentences of "have more [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On some you 'll find screens and pews and font-covers of such exuberance they 'd more at home in a Moorish palace . |
| 2 | A man might be more virtuous if more selfish , after all , as more than one eighteenth-century moralist proposed , and more generous if he had more to be generous with . |
| 3 | It appeared that , among the juveniles , Asians had more cautions , and among the adults Asians had more with ‘ no further action . ’ |
| 4 | Employees of the National Semiconductor company arriving for work in Swindon had more on their minds than usual this morning . |
| 5 | Teenagers Andrew Duff and Delightful Steven Massey ‘ saved he day ’ on each of the two Saturdays — would that we had more like them so that we could have ‘ Live Aid ’ as well as Christian Aid . |
| 6 | This was a band inspired into existence by The Sex Pistols , but who had more in common with Sabbath , Hawkwind , Hendrix , Pink Floyd … |
| 7 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 8 | None of this included identification with a national entity ; indeed , ‘ a French knight , like a French priest , had more in common with a knight or a priest from Italy or Germany than with a French peasant ’ . |
| 9 | Tony Beard in Record Mirror described the group as ‘ Rumbling rather than jangling ’ and that songs like ‘ Crushed ’ had more in common with Sonic Youth than Orange Juice . |
| 10 | Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes . |
| 11 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 12 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 13 | Louis had more in common with Carl than with Sam , Jerry or me . |
| 14 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 15 | David Martill of the Open University , and David Unwin of Reading University , discovered the fossilized tissue of the wing of a Sandactylus alive 100 million years ago , which had more in common with bat wings than the skin of modern reptiles . |
| 16 | As it turned out he had more in him that he realised . |
| 17 | If anything , these studies had more in common with the avowedly anti-correctionalist ‘ labelling ’ theories of the later 1960s . |
| 18 | Going to the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s , for example , was an important part of courtship among young people : it had more in common with other courtship rituals than with other forms of media use , such as reading the paper . |
| 19 | In production terms , the morning paper perhaps had more in common with the assembly line than with the production of most TV programmes . |
| 20 | The Gascons did not consider themselves French ; their language was barely intelligible to those who spoke the langue d'oil of the north , and their culture and society had more in common with Languedoc than with northern France . |
| 21 | However , the Minority and Majority Reports which resulted had more in common than divided them . |
| 22 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 23 | In some ways , Wendell decided as he went upstairs , he had more in common with Harry than with his own son , Judd . |
| 24 | One suspects that police constables had more in common with local popular culture than with evangelical vigilantes . |
| 25 | The British coal dispute of 1984–5 had more in common with the American ‘ labor struggles ’ of the early twentieth century than the post-reform era UMW strikes of 1977 and 1981 . |
| 26 | She had more in common with those wartime women than she knew . |
| 27 | Folly guessed from the timbre of his voice that he had more in mind than cool discussion . |
| 28 | As partners in pursuit of the common goals and values of democracy , freedom , human rights and the market economics , stated Yeltsin , Russia now had more in common with South Korea than with the unreformed communist North . |
| 29 | The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court . |
| 30 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |