Example sentences of "more [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 2 | He should have had the guts to demand more or get out . ’ |
| 3 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 4 | Did you know any more or did n't you know any more ? |
| 5 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 6 | He understood more than had actually been said , and he wanted to find some way to ease her embarrassment . |
| 7 | And then , in January , Klaus Fuchs was arrested and revealed that , thanks to him , the Russians knew far more than had ever been suspected . |
| 8 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 9 | The only girl , Roberta , or Berta , as the family called her , was the same age as her cousin Sandy and although ‘ chesty ’ as they said , she was certainly spirited enough , and more than kept up with all the boys . |
| 10 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 11 | It is running a TV campaign through Burkitt Weinreich Bryant Clients & Company , using the line ‘ telephones and answering machines that do more than laze around ’ . |
| 12 | It 's more than help actually , it 's an empowering . |
| 13 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 14 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 15 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 16 | Also the translation process amounted to little more than looking up words in bi-lingual dictionaries . |
| 17 | So we 're more than looking forward to reviewing this one , although before we examine it in detail perhaps we should take a quick look at Lowden 's model-numbering system , since with so many different options available , like cutaways , special inlays , different bindings and decoration , it 's sometimes hard to spot which model is which . |
| 18 | Bevin and Marshall agreed on 4 December 1947 that the two governments had done no more than receive broadly similar recommendations from their advisers . |
| 19 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 20 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 21 | In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign . |
| 22 | I hope that Opposition Members will dissociate themselves from that comment , because Japanese and American investment is more than welcome here . |
| 23 | To avoid that fate , Microsoft will have to do more than keep ahead in the business , and of the rivals , that it has today . |
| 24 | In black this detailing might be inoffensive , but in colour-coordinated white the Carlsson looks as if it would enjoy nothing more than hanging around outside Stringfellows waiting to pick up Page Three girls . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend will concede that we have more than lived up to our promise that our Army of the future , as the Select Committee report said , will be outstandingly well equipped . |
| 26 | Watch out that the charges under these arrangements do not more than eat up any advantage . |
| 27 | To argue now for its prioritization means no more than demanding as much attention be given to it as there is to street crimes . |
| 28 | Pulling out may cost more than staying in . |
| 29 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 30 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |