Example sentences of "to have more " in BNC.

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31 Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels .
32 The reader who wishes to have more detailed information on the various forms of physical treatments available should refer elsewhere .
33 Hard and fast rules can not be laid down as each individual situation varies , but if nurses participate in discussion and role play , it can help them to have more confidence when they experience the real situation .
34 Women tend to have more foot problems than men from years of wearing fashion shoes .
35 Alexander 's disappointment was indescribable ; he now thought that he would never again be able to have more than temporary relief .
36 Certainly , some studies have shown that those with serious allergic disorders , such as asthma , tend to have more emotional and social problems .
37 She seemed to have more energy as a result , but she developed nettle-rash and a vaginal discharge , which turned out to-be due to thrush ( Candida infection ) .
38 Thus , it is clear that the system is not going to get easier for advisers , and it is going to be increasingly important for them to have more than a passing understanding and experience of it .
39 Although no single investor is supposed to have more than a 15 per cent holding the government has indicated that it may waive this requirement .
40 Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them .
41 It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary .
42 We can choose to have more of this , less of that , travel here , there and further afield .
43 If children can be drawn into normal conversation with adults as they work together , the ideas and experience which they assimilate will begin to have more meaning for them .
44 To have more staff time available for planning and implementation of training i.e. Assistant training officer ’ .
45 To have more staff time available for planning and implementation of training ’ …
46 Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub .
47 To be useful , a bistable needs to have more sophisticated access to its inputs .
48 At one time villages had to be more self-sufficient and the village used to have more shops and trades than there are now .
49 ‘ You 're so good to me , Stephen , ’ she said seriously , ‘ but I would change all this to have more of your company . ’
50 ‘ We need to have more searchers .
51 ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely .
52 And once homeothermy had been accepted as a good working hypothesis , then other arguments relating to non-metabolic methods of heat control began to have more relevance .
53 Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion .
54 It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time .
55 Or , if you want to have more fun …
56 When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true .
57 Or perhaps you want to have more fun , and laugh more ?
58 Or you might realise that you want extra money , say , in order to have more free time , or so that you can help a charity , or so that you can travel abroad .
59 If you want to have more fun , for example , do you also believe that work justifies your existence , or that fun-loving people waste time , or that it 's ‘ better ’ to be serious and heavy-hearted ?
60 Nolan lists some diseases he seems to have more success with than others : arthritis , migraine , bad backs , depression , ME .
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