Example sentences of "more [adv] [subord] we [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
| 2 | We would be able to do it more easily if we could not only accurately assess the reading performance of individual children but also the readability of particular texts . |
| 3 | ‘ Whichever way she goes we can go more quickly because we can stay on the ride and she dare not . |
| 4 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |
| 5 | " Slips of the pen " happen more often than we might suppose and certainly do not necessarily indicate carelessness , idleness or ignorance . |
| 6 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |