Example sentences of "[verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of visiting and recorded contacts with other agencies , the specialist team displayed a clearer pattern of activities than the other teams : while cases remained open they visited more , and did not ‘ monitor only ’ ; if closed and re-opened , cases came back for re-assessment in fewer numbers ; and in both categories the rate of contacts with other agencies was higher . |
| 2 | 8 No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 3 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 4 | Maybe they had no answer for how a little gymnast from Minsk , training through Russian winters in an unheated hall , could win more gold medals on his own than our 388 competitors between them . |
| 5 | The view is gaining ground that , if Ms Campbell does not win more than 40% of the delegates ' votes on the first ballot , Mr Charest will take the crown with the help of Mr Edwards 's backers . |
| 6 | No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 7 | No competitor may win more than one prize . |
| 8 | 11 No entrant can win more than one prize . |
| 9 | Order and tell are like get but simply evoke more specific means of obtaining a result . |
| 10 | This announcement gained her a very wry glance and she fumed more as she read his looks . |
| 11 | It depends on the act of viewpoint-shifting , which we must now consider more closely , remaining always on the lookout for loopholes through which the egoist might slip . |
| 12 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 13 | Let us now consider more closely the main positive conclusion Moore reaches by application of his two principles , namely that personal affection and the contemplation of beautiful objects are by far the two most important good things of which we know . |
| 14 | Without such expertise , then one should consider more carefully before investing . |
| 15 | ( Note the temporal and locational elements included here-elements which we shall consider more fully later . ) |
| 16 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 17 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 18 | Let us consider more closely what was implied in the Greek refusal to look at the Bible . |
| 19 | We must now consider more closely the pope 's relationship with the law and where Innocent stands in its development . |
| 20 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 21 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 22 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 23 | What to do in a democratic society with the errant or aberrant citizen of genius — this question , fumbled at or glossed over by everyone who has written on Pound 's case ( jurists and psychiatrists , as well as biographers and critics ) , is here posed more starkly , and explored more searchingly , then ever before . |
| 24 | The transmission design and construction function ( which was in the hands of a centralised headquarters group inherited from the CEB ) was a model of efficiency , but the power station side posed more serious problems . |
| 25 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 26 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 27 | The ordinance of 26 August 1944 stipulated that the same person could not direct more than one publication . |
| 28 | Equally , any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules . |
| 29 | Much later issues of race and class began to be addressed more seriously , after years of being ignored or side-stepped . |
| 30 | The study of the infant 's development also throws light on two further matters which will be addressed more fully later on in the chapter : the relationship between the symbolism of the object and that of language , and the use of the artefact in play . |