Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as the RHA did feel impelled to act , the constant worry about shortages of staff and inadequacies of conditions at its mental hospitals , making neglect or abuse of patients more likely to occur , played a significant part in decision-making . |
| 2 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 3 | Century Theatre present Music by Marguerite Monnot Book & Lyrics by Julian More , David Heneker & Monty Norman ( based on the original French by Alexander Breffort ) |
| 4 | The Ministry of Supply 's Directorate of Power Station Equipment was already engaged , with some assistance from the CEB , in piecemeal standardisation initiatives and attempts to allocate materials and orders between manufacturers more rationally . |
| 5 | The matters of employing people is changing and in the main those changes fly in the face of traditional G M B organization and make recruitment and retention of membership more difficult . |
| 6 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 7 | In a report by Mintel , British holiday makers were found to rate food and accommodation in Britain more highly than that of abroad . |
| 8 | Moreover her rule saw in Russia an unprecedented growth of intellectual life and a flow and expression of ideas more free than ever before in the country 's history . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the Act tries to encourage judges and magistrates to sentence more petty offenders to punishments in the community rather than to custody ; but on the other hand , the Act allows people convicted of violent or sexual offences to receive harsher sentences than hitherto . |
| 10 | Perhaps nowhere else is the mood and tone of love more beautifully expressed than in his poem ‘ Beneath My Hands ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth ) : |
| 11 | For , as Loomis points out , even though Republicans received more funding than Democrats between 1930 and 1970 the Democrats were able to hold power in the Senate and House of Representatives more often than the Republicans . |
| 12 | It learns shape less quickly , and time of day more slowly still . |
| 13 | Through disengagement , elderly people are believed to transfer their remaining time and energy to matters more restful and congenial — to reflection , reminiscence and rest . |
| 14 | But shares in Wheway more than halved to 6p after the engineer plunged to a worse than expected £3.51m loss and admitted that talks with a bidder had been abandoned . |