Example sentences of "more [modal v] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All monetary sector institutions with eligible liabilities of £10 million or more may be called upon to place special deposits with the Bank . |
| 2 | Any member failing to pay his subscription for one year or more may be dismissed from membership by the Council at a duly convened meeting , or by a postal ballot of the voting members of Council . |
| 3 | They are covered by the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) , under which mergers involving the takeover of assets worth ( currently ) £30m or more may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) . |
| 4 | Secondly , more may be discovered about the accident . |
| 5 | Hundreds more may be missing in the disaster at Llipi , in Bolivia , which lies in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 6 | More should be done by organisations to provide counselling in career development and to encourage self-development for both younger and older employees . |
| 7 | More should be invested in the fabric of our schools . |
| 8 | Specific criticisms included the view that coverage of Business Questions ( coming immediately after the Prime Minister on Thursdays ) was excessive ; that there was too much coverage of points of order ; that too much attention was paid to the confrontation between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition ; that not enough attention was paid to legislation ; and that more should be shown of the nuts and bolts of the House 's work . |
| 9 | Others believe that the killer was plain insane and feel that nothing more should be read into it . |
| 10 | It was used as an argument that more should be spent on development of technique . |
| 11 | We have a right to say that , if such a major project is to go ahead , we should not — as the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) said earlier — settle for whatever is on the table , but should ensure that it is the right project and that the correct amount of money and no more should be spent on it . |
| 12 | Asking a question such as " Should Britain spend more on defence or on education ? " and requiring a single response one way or the other does not cover those cases where a person might feel that more should be spent on both , or , for that matter , less on both . |
| 13 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 14 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 15 | In a compulsory registration area a lease granted for a term of forty years or more must be registered at HM Land Registry ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) . |
| 16 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 17 | It provides that existing holdings of 10 per cent or more must be notified to the EC-listed company at the first annual general meeting which takes place more than three months after the Directive has been implemented ; they must be notified to the competent authority at the same time and must be made public within one month after the meeting . |
| 18 | The Indian government has ordered that for every tree felled , two more must be planted in its place — and this is actually happening . |
| 19 | How many more must be sacrificed before something sensible is done ? |
| 20 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 21 | Er well I think more could be done with erm helping people who are unemployed . |
| 22 | Nothing more could be done on the case that evening and they had cause to hope it was nearing its end . |
| 23 | Survivors have always been told the terms of the peace treaty with Japan meant nothing more could be done for them . |
| 24 | Here again , more could be done by ordinary people . |
| 25 | A great deal more could be done in this respect , including workshops in ‘ alternative ’ religious broadcasting . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 27 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 28 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 29 | But many more could be slipping through the net . |
| 30 | Much more could be made of Wittgenstein 's contribution here . |