Example sentences of "more [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 2 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 3 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 4 | Accordingly investment in this sector probably led more than it followed investment in agriculture or manufacturing . |
| 5 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 6 | And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists . |
| 7 | Even Salisbury itself — ‘ full of embattled little parishes ’ — resembles the countryside church more than it does the way-out zeal of Poole with its congregations of 19 to 30 year-olds . |
| 8 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 9 | Er , and I think perhaps that castle could be persuaded to show up just a little more than it does . |
| 10 | Bureaucracy distorts the tasks of social organizations more than it does in management , where ‘ the accumulation of bureaucratic relations does not necessarily decrease efficiency ’ . |
| 11 | The problem is that English law as a result protects property more than it does the person , as discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | If we were in fact to promote trickle transfer that would happen a great deal more than it does currently . |
| 13 | Erm I , I think again it 's , it 's probably the , the feeling of wearing it in , in confined spaces that might upset women more than it does erm men I do n't know . |
| 14 | As the Poets ' Garden , a decoration for the bedroom of the " poet Gauguin " was more than it seemed . |
| 15 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 16 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 17 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 18 | Authorship attribution problems are easier to deal with when they can be cast into the following form : in respect of the measured features , does the doubtful work resemble the work of candidate author A more than it resembles the work of candidate author B ? |
| 19 | It is also necessary that the " progeny " of any given cloud should resemble its " parent " more than it resembles any old " parent " in the " population " . |
| 20 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 21 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 22 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 23 | Having said that , as Mr 's pointed out , in fact the new manual if anything er emphasizes the benefits more than it did previously because as you said , previously it required a fifty percent reduction in traffic to register a one decibel change in noise levels which was s perceived to be significant . |
| 24 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 25 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 26 | Nikolai Ogarev correctly divined that " the censorship reform constrains the press more than it liberates it " . |
| 27 | Postmodernism follows from modernism , in some sense , more than it follows after modernism . |
| 28 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 29 | According to doctors Mills and Faunce of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales , melatonin tricks the body into thinking it has slept more than it has , has mild pain-killing qualities , and slows brainwave activity , thus ‘ enhancing meditative practices ’ . |
| 30 | In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation . |