Example sentences of "more [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here will I never more tread nor stampen ! |
| 2 | It seemed that with every exchange the man was growing more confident , and the girl , for all she maintained her fiery calm , a little more pressed and on the defensive . |
| 3 | The team became more accepting and realistic about the time demanded by the investigation service . |
| 4 | When Professor Cary Cooper , head of Organizational Psychology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology , published research showing statistical links between breast cancer and stress , he also showed that the women most likely to develop breast cancer were more withdrawn and when they cried tended to cry alone . |
| 5 | Come Sunday you 're more withdrawn and reticent so any hassle or hitch will prove too much to cope with . |
| 6 | The depute fiscal , Brian Crookshanks , told the court that staff at the stables had noticed early last year she had become more withdrawn and was putting on weight . |
| 7 | Spencer 's argument was that although societies become more differentiated and heterogeneous this tends , not to chaos , but new forms of equilibrium . |
| 8 | Yes , and in one day here you 'll find more to see and do than two weeks spent almost anywhere else . |
| 9 | We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was ! |
| 10 | The approach may be more considered but Burns still sounds like he was force-fed Brillo Pads as a nipper . |
| 11 | Methods of curriculum planning are inseparable from teachers ' thinking about what has to be planned , and the arrival of the National Curriculum is dictating a much more considered and long-term approach than was adopted in at least some of the classrooms we visited ( NCC 1989 , 1991 ; Alexander et al . |
| 12 | Then the neat , well-modelled head was once more averted and the inspector re-entered his silent , respectful reverie . |
| 13 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 14 | Studies of the Quaternary by physical geographers since the 1950s have led generally in one of two directions : either towards a more process or model-based investigation or towards a greater emphasis upon chronology . |
| 15 | Schools can do much to improve discipline in schools without the use of sanctions — by motivating pupils ( emphasising and rewarding achievement ) , improving the physical environment , giving pupils more say and more responsibility , involving parents , and so on . |
| 16 | But then more and more come and they all started acting flash , like they owned the place and that 's when all the trouble started . |
| 17 | There have been more cancelled and postponed competitions here in the last few years than live ones — all of which reflects badly on the BMC as controllers . |
| 18 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 19 | He still had a lot more to write but , considering that he was bowing out with Telemachus , he thought that he would not leave a negligible oeuvre behind him . |
| 20 | Just do more stat and it 'll say zero . |
| 21 | So we need more space and we think we 'll get it . |
| 22 | Their world became even more confined and focused on the home . |
| 23 | a little more wait and I was back on the bed of the big machine for a few parting shots . |
| 24 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 25 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 26 | As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious . |
| 27 | Later rushing-about games may be more organized and contentful when children base their play on ideas from a shared story or group of stories heard , seen , or read . |
| 28 | The fact remains that men 's leisure-time activities are much more visible to history , more organized and perhaps to some extent seen as more legitimate . |
| 29 | This precautionary demand for money will also be related to money incomes since : ( a ) the higher your regular income then normally the more expensive are the items you own , e.g. the Rolls-Royce is usually more expensive to repair than the Mini ; ( b ) if money incomes rise due to inflation then the same items cost more to replace or repair . |
| 30 | Much charitable effort was devoted to this cause on the assumption that improved housing conditions , by removing some of the degradation from the lives of the poor , would give them more hope and greater enthusiasm for the struggle for self-help and survival . |