Example sentences of "more for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student is responsible for paying for the typing and binding of the thesis : this can cost £350 or more for typing services . |
| 2 | Perhaps the three-dimensional world of trees demands extra computing power for controlling precision leaps , and even more for thinking about efficient paths through a maze of branches that may or may not connect farther on . |
| 3 | But when he was n't conducting affairs of state , there 's nothing he enjoyed more for getting away from it all , than fly fishing . |
| 4 | The scanners should be used more for capturing line drawings for input to our large-scale DTP set-up . |
| 5 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 6 | Like all other words , like the word ‘ jargon ’ itself , the technical terms are changed with use : corrupted , as they are used more and more cavalierly : enriched , as their origins are taken more and more for granted and they begin to be used as metaphors . |
| 7 | In the second and third years the course comes together as it concentrates on communications as a discipline , taking the discourse of sociology and psychology much more for granted . |
| 8 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 9 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 10 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 11 | Most important of all , educational priority areas should be formally designated , and teachers paid more for working in them . |
| 12 | For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so . |
| 13 | ‘ No Government has done more for racing than this one . |
| 14 | However , those are occasions more for boosting morale than for scrutinising the operations of a parish . ’ |
| 15 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 16 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 17 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 18 | DTFS , the Desktop File System , halves the normal 60Mb of disk space ( and 40Mb more for networking ) normally required for feature rich implementations of Unix with the inclusion of transparent data compression and ‘ a revolutionary disk media layout ’ . |