Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , because the British were so much further advanced than the French in nuclear matters , they naturally received more information from the Americans , thus reinforcing their preferential position compared with other allies . |
| 2 | Or do they just make more noise ? |
| 3 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 4 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 5 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 6 | We talk later in this chapter about the use of other people 's words , making the point that one problem with other people 's words is that they usually make more sense where they come from than where you put them in your essay . |
| 7 | They also acquired more knowledge about Simon Parke , one of the best pieces of selection ever made . |
| 8 | They also use more fuel , therefore contributing more pollution , and use more of an increasingly scarce resource than diesels . |
| 9 | They also make more noise than two iron foundries having a fight . |
| 10 | Families in the hills not only consume 25 per cent more energy than those on the plains , they also consume more firewood . |
| 11 | They also want more state investment in agriculture and an end to central planning . |
| 12 | Not only do they consume more natural resources , they also produce more pollution . |
| 13 | On the other hand , more of the owner-managed businesses said they now had more confidence in the direction of Government policy than the top 1,000 representatives . |
| 14 | Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range . |
| 15 | They typically have more education which reinforces this tendency . |
| 16 | The problem facing writers like Schon who attempt to theorize about practice is that if they fail , practice remains particularistic or intuitive , and if they succeed , they simply generate more theory . |
| 17 | The practices of livestock owners had not changed significantly with the spread of veterinary services and they too required more land . |
| 18 | They therefore demand more work on the part of the listener . |
| 19 | Not only were the staffing ratios higher in community-based services but the observation data also suggests that the staff were ‘ delivered ’ , in that they actually spent more time physically in the presence of clients ( staff were present in 91 per cent of observations in the houses and 86 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses compared with 74 per cent in the hospital settings ) . |
| 20 | And they certainly needed more help than the school could give . |