Example sentences of "[verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , he died indoors , worrying that he would enjoy more than his fair share of sunshine if he went out . ’ |
| 2 | Both in Britain and in the US , cable feeds usually supply more programmes than are locally available via radio waves . |
| 3 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 4 | So we supply more people overseas that we are in the U K. |
| 5 | Workers are chronically prone to money illusion : if prices rise in the same proportion to the rise in the money wage , leaving the real wage rate unchanged , workers none the less supply more labour . |
| 6 | In The Godfather , Don Corleone says : ‘ A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more money in a week than a man with a gun can take in a year . ’ |
| 7 | Other finishing processes posed more problems . |
| 8 | The control of working capital is an everyday activity and managers should direct more attention say to stock levels of consumable items . |
| 9 | Why does not he direct more of his roads bribes money towards the provision of better buses ? |
| 10 | No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable . |
| 11 | The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail . |
| 12 | On the other side , revolutionary parties may come to accept more of the existing social institutions than they did in their first enthusiastic advocacy of a brave new world . |
| 13 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 14 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 15 | The ‘ business start-up scheme ’ proposals provided more funding for additional places , enabling more people to start their own businesses , although Mr Lang did not say how many of the additional 10,000 UK places would be made available to Scotland . |
| 16 | Innovation : The major need is for a step change in culture — enabling more innovation in bringing new products to market ; the key message is ‘ innovate or evaporate ’ . |
| 17 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |
| 18 | Older women report more illness and long-standing health problems and consult their GPs more frequently than men ( OPCS , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | In datasets from different countries men consistently report more partners than women , and the British data show smaller differences than many others ( T W Smith , paper presented to American Sociological Association , Cincinnati , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 21 | But this time can you concentrate more on what you are going to do with your body to actually tell people via your body or give them a good idea of exactly what you mean |
| 22 | Mill 's fears led him eventually to favour proposals to give the educated more votes than the mass of the people . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , he went out , put the ladder against the wall briefly to leave traces , threw a bit of mud through the window , and the key , and scattered more mud around the rose bed . |
| 24 | Some headway was made in expanding self-sufficiency , whether through utilising more land for agriculture , developing home economies , or encouraging local manufacturers and products . |
| 25 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 26 | But in any case , it would make sense , given that the grey whale population has been increasing steadily overall , for whales to be exploring and utilising more areas . ’ |
| 27 | I think Clare lives more on her nerves . |
| 28 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 29 | reported more teachers in the schools and 75 per cent . |
| 30 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |