Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paradox is , in short , that fishermen would catch more fish if they fished less ! |
| 2 | I think it 's better if you give them fi They 'll buy more tickets if they 're getting |
| 3 | You have probably already … . ’ — she looked viciously at her son , for a moment , making him flinch from her temper-'Women do not need more men than they have to put up with . ’ |
| 4 | Jeremy Gibbs said he would blast more deer if they continued to eat his crops . |
| 5 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 7 | Midlanders would like more sex than they get . |
| 8 | It means helping counsellees to look closely at their own emotions in order to decide whether they are necessary , or an on-going indulgence ( on the basis that certain people enjoy the ‘ benefits ’ of sympathy and concern , so actually make use of their social distress ) over which they could exercise more control if they wanted to do so . |
| 9 | Padding behind them were the demolition squads , Corran Purdon 's men held for a tense few moments in the open when every second might draw more fire as they smashed the northern winding-hut door ( 'A' ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Home-made-Wills ’ can create more problems than they solve . |
| 11 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 12 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 13 | The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed . |
| 14 | If money supply increases , people will have more money than they require to hold . |
| 15 | I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there . |
| 16 | Neither is it a question of ‘ working for it ’ , nor , to put it the other way , that people do not have more land because they are not prepared to work for it . |
| 17 | There seems to be no let-up with the continuing rise in patronage , even in the Network SouthEast area where the August 1989 approval to spend £257million on Networker units will inevitably attract more passengers when they are introduced . |
| 18 | In a similar way , it may be that courses in the Spring programme , which have been low on numbers but well received , will attract more participants if they are repeated . |
| 19 | Clustered together , branches of the same bank help each other to generate and retain more business than they would do independently . |
| 20 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 21 | If we do it right , we can engage more soldiers than they would gain if they caught the lot . ’ |
| 22 | The Ramblers ' Association would get more progress if they worked with us all the time . |
| 23 | Sometimes it is argued that even if researchers do not really believe in the religion that they are studying , they will get more information if they pretend to do so — if , in other words , they use covert , rather than overt , methods of investigation . |
| 24 | Economic incentives or disincentives such as pollutant emission charges or taxes should receive more attention than they had received previously . |