Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] more [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I must think Wordsworth is deeper than Milton , though I think it has depended more upon the general and gregarious advance of intellect , than individual greatness of Mind From the Paradise Lost and the other Works of Milton , I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves to say , that his Philosophy , human and divine , may be tolerably understood by one not much advanced in years … |
| 2 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 3 | She wants to discover more about the history and local legends of Melsonby . |
| 4 | Anyone who can help or who wants to know more about the scheme should ring Darlington . |
| 5 | A : You mean Valerie wants to know more about the role of children in Darcy 's Utopia ? |
| 6 | The Anglo-American lati relationship has done more for the defence and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world . |
| 7 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 8 | He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us . |
| 9 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 10 | The report also found that the Church can appear unfriendly to outsiders , and needs to teach more about the basics of the Christian faith . |
| 11 | As she herself has said , ‘ One always needs to govern more in the centre than one wants . |
| 12 | If a reader ever expects to do more about the stringing of an old keyboard instrument ( or a modern instrument designed after one ) than replacing broken strings , it is essential that he or she is familiar with this book . |
| 13 | As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel . |
| 14 | In the past year 3i , the venture capital company , has invested £30m in the leisure industry and it expects to spend more in the future despite the recession . |
| 15 | These changes in society seem irreversible , especially when the household 's standard of living comes to depend more on the wife 's income in dual earner households ( 60 per cent of all households with two adults under retirement age in 1987 , compared with 52 per cent in 1973 ) . |