Example sentences of "[pers pn] to have more " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely .
2 ‘ Now I want him to have more shots on goal and get on the end of more chances . ’
3 It was n't prudent for him to have more .
4 Aha , do you want him to have more money ?
5 Hard and fast rules can not be laid down as each individual situation varies , but if nurses participate in discussion and role play , it can help them to have more confidence when they experience the real situation .
6 Thus , it is clear that the system is not going to get easier for advisers , and it is going to be increasingly important for them to have more than a passing understanding and experience of it .
7 Many southerners are apparently against provision of large-scale welfare support for these people , however ; they apparently believe it will both encourage them to have more children , especially children not in a male-headed , nuclear family , and thus increase the State 's welfare load , and also because they think it will reduce the incentive for them to work , and thereby solve their problems themselves .
8 They are a source of great uncertainty and insecurity that leads them to have more children than they would otherwise .
9 So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen .
10 to enable them to have more management time , like we 're looking at trying to get them to reduce their work their case loads
11 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
12 When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true .
13 ‘ Not in the least ’ , he told me , ‘ In fact , it lets us off the hook and will enable us to have more freedom perhaps than before ’ .
14 Further assumptions are that we are fragmented as a movement , and that unity , not a hollow unity which does not go beyond slogans , but an authentic unity established in a principled way , would enable us to have more of an impact in effecting change in our own communities and in turn worldwide .
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