Example sentences of "which [vb base] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recycling of these is well established in Australia , Canada and the US , all of which re-use more than 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The big problem with today 's chips , which squeeze more than 120000 transistors into less than a square centimetre of silicon , is heat . |
| 3 | The last-named are useful in creating faster movement or in extending the material into slow sections , thus giving those speed changes which make more extended forms possible . |
| 4 | The committee , chaired by the Leader of the Lords , Lord Wakeham , has decided on a package that includes relaxation of rules that prevent benefit claimants from taking further education courses which occupy more than 21 hours a week . |
| 5 | The committee , chaired by the Leader in the Lords , Lord Wakeham , has decided on a package that includes relaxation of rules that prevent benefit claimants from taking further education courses which occupy more than 21 hours a week . |
| 6 | There are though two other measures which would achieve the same limited objective and which appear more liberal in comparison with nationalizing ( imprisoning ) offending corporations . |
| 7 | It is important to bear this definition in mind , since elsewhere Goody employs the term ‘ literacy ’ in ways which appear more general than this . |
| 8 | However a great deal of casual conversation contains phrases and echoes of phrases which appear more to be intended as contributions to a conversation than to be taken as instances of information-giving . |
| 9 | In other regions we see scattered developments , again of figures which appear more or less subsidiary to the whole design . |
| 10 | It is , perhaps not surprising that Renaissance writers seem most open to the deconstructive implications of the play of language in lyric poetry , generic forms which suggest more personal and private preoccupations . |
| 11 | Three close neighbours from north-west Europe provide instructive comparisons which say more about political attitudes than they do about natural advantages for cycling as a mode of transport . |
| 12 | Several sophisticated techniques are available , many of which involve more than one radio telescope receiving the echo , by means of which the ambiguity between the two patches can be removed , and the topography , surface texture and information about the composition of a planet 's surface can be established . |
| 13 | A further £312 million could be avoided with a little effort by either changing behaviour or by choosing more tax-efficient products which involve more detailed financial planning . |
| 14 | There are certainly powerful arguments against centralised systems of welfare and this would in any case run counter to present trends which urge more effective relationships with informal , very local systems of care . |
| 15 | That is still a lot ; but , for a machine which cost more than $2 billion to build and launch , and which costs $250m a year to keep running , it is not enough . |
| 16 | There was also a presidential yacht which cost more than three hundred million lei and whose very occasional guests included the French Communist Party leader , Georges Marchais , in 1984 . |
| 17 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 18 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 19 | Police in Cheshire and Greater Manchester have joined forces to investigate a series of attacks which span more than six years . |
| 20 | Among them there are two letters which show more intimately than any others the intricate web of monastic commitment , personal relationships , and politics , in which as archbishop he was required to work . |
| 21 | There are at least two groups of pavements which show more specific similarities than were considered as " sequential " ( above ) . |
| 22 | Businesses which earn more than £400 a week must become VAT registered . |
| 23 | Animals which depend more on other senses can avoid eagle-eyed predators by moving about under cover of darkness . |
| 24 | The data is drawn from the Family Expenditure Surveys 1979-1989 which yield more than 3,000 lone mothers for the analysis . |
| 25 | They also have the advantage of being able to integrate the assessment of structural , semantic and functional aspects of language by including a variety of different kinds of items , or by employing items which examine more than one aspect of language performance . |
| 26 | There has , therefore , been a significant move away from psychological explanations of ‘ failure ’ which see socialization as the root of the problem , and towards explanations which look more closely at the discriminatory practices of schools . |
| 27 | These parties are ideologically sound , all likely in Moscow 's judgement to evolve into fully fledged Communist parties : no ideological hybrids here which owe more to Mussolini than to Lenin . |
| 28 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 29 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 30 | Nunataks and cliffs with small local populations of gulls , petrels and skuas gather deposits which seem more encouraging to plant growth ( Siple , 1938 ; Lovenskiold , 1960 ; Rudolph , 1966 ) , perhaps because concentrations of guano are less overwhelming . |