Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some felt that they needed to compensate their children for the ‘ loss ’ of the other parent , and so should devote more time to them . |
| 2 | When we do know what causes whales to beach , we perhaps will have more chance of persuading the stranded ones to return to the safety of deep water . |
| 3 | We need above all — because it is the key to everything else — to increase the productivity and the competitiveness of our industries , because that alone will encourage more job creation . |
| 4 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 5 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 6 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 7 | The usual views were advanced — that he would make prison too ‘ soft ’ and too attractive ; that treating lawbreakers well would encourage more crime and that prisoners were undeserving and irredeemable , anyway . |
| 8 | Rather than take the pessimistic view that they will remain at least this high in future , we hope that the ( slightly ) lower figures we have given instead may prove more representative of interest rate levels in the longer run . |
| 9 | ‘ Such is the success of the venture , which also includes nature trails , that we are planning to build a cafe close by , which again will mean more employment locally , ’ said Mr Moares . |
| 10 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
| 11 | Britain 's teachers too would welcome more use of external examiners , to lighten their workload . |