Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | So if you look at individuals making erm decisions about punishment or some decision where there 's a consequence or an element of risk , you 'll find that groups quite often tend to go for more extreme behaviour than any one of the individuals in the group . |
| 3 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 4 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 5 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 6 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 7 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 8 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 9 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 10 | Send to SCIAF for more information . |
| 11 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 12 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 13 | Correspondence had been received from the green machine and the secretary was asked to write for more information because we were n't convinced with exactly what they were doing . |
| 14 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 15 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 16 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 17 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 18 | Outdoors , sound will ‘ evaporate ’ , so you need to compensate with more power . |
| 19 | In the setting of residential or day care , group work offers a social worker the chance to work with more people in a different way . |
| 20 | This use of technology ( like Jethro Tull 's seed drill ) increased agricultural productivity : by replacing men by machines or giving men machines to work with more crops were produced and with less labour power . |
| 21 | To discover in more detail what information is relevant to the needs of employees requires a systematic investigation , often on a continuous basis . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’ |
| 23 | Things have begun to swing towards more enforcement after a period in which , as you note , the Sherman and Clayton acts were forgotten and the authorities charged with enforcing them were starved of resources . |
| 24 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 25 | The speaker is less likely to gulp for more air in mid-sentence . |
| 26 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 27 | If a capillary joint leaks , you may be able to feed in more solder ( after draining the system ) . |
| 28 | But our belief is that , in the long-term , we shall improve education because even this Government will see the need to pump in more money to get teachers . ’ |
| 29 | The lists of attainments in Profiles of Development are not only a means to record learning , they are also an intervention in teaching — an attempt by the authors to define in more detail the National Curriculum as it applies to ‘ individuals for whom there is concern over progress ’ . |
| 30 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |