Example sentences of "more [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another . |
| 2 | ‘ I fancy it would have been a Palace final more worth watching than many a struggle at Sydenham … |
| 3 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 4 | He had something to live for now , something infinitely more worth while than the seemingly mindless routine of military discipline and the risk of pointless death or — what was often worse — horrible mutilation . |
| 5 | A man with a past was always going to be more worth knowing that a man without one . |
| 6 | It should also help to raise cash for the training of counsellors who help to revitalise jaded relationships and can therefore make St Valentine 's Days of the future much more worth celebrating . |
| 7 | people who discussed politics more during the campaign gave personal conversations a somewhat higher rating for providing information on the issues , but not for other purposes . |
| 8 | ‘ They should have spoken up more during the election campaign , ’ adds a critic . |
| 9 | He rang the Wallis 's number twice more during a period of five days and each time got the answerphone . |
| 10 | In tundra habitats , it has been shown that lemmings can eat up to 50 per cent of available vegetation and destroy a lot more during peak years , and as a result of lack of food the rate of decline of lemming populations can be as rapid as the rate of increase ( Batzli , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | They were , on the contrary , likely to have been appreciably higher — say 30° to perhaps 50° or more during periods of significant crustal extension such as the Permian , and at times during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous . |
| 12 | ‘ People have adapted to telephone charges being more during the morning than during the night . |
| 13 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 14 | It is true that much of the subsequent shape and form that a rose assumes is determined more during the first year or two of pruning than any subsequent factor . |
| 15 | I had also wondered more and more during the week about the little group of cottages at Agia Varvara , the bay east of Bourani . |
| 16 | Beyond the town quay the strength reaches force 4 to 7 and more during a session ; and it 's not so strong . |
| 17 | For example , someone who has a problem with alcohol may find himself or herself thinking progressively more during the day about the opportunity to drink in the evening . |
| 18 | Kendon ( 1967 ) found that speakers do tend to look at listeners more during fluent speech than during hesitant speech . |
| 19 | If it spends more during the year than it said it would spend , it is worse off and must either borrow more or raise more taxes . |
| 20 | The ankle had swollen more during the night and was extremely discoloured . |
| 21 | Males grow more during normal puberty than do females . |
| 22 | If you would like to know more about being an ACET-link , please contact Chris Catlin/Peter Glover on 081 840 7879 or write to ACET , PO Box 1323 , LONDON W5 5TF . |
| 23 | Telephone Janet Sutton during office hours if you would like to know more about us , and how we might be able to help you . |
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| 25 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 26 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 27 | The student may want to find out more about the kind of parts he/she may play in the future , or indeed may have played during the time already spent at drama school . |
| 28 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 29 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 30 | Nolte is a declining star in a world he increasingly discovers is more about money and power than sport . |