Example sentences of "[vb -s] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 2 | Herpex simplex virus infection causing a mucocutaneous ulcer that persists for more than 1 month , or bronchitis , pneumonitis , or oesophagitis for any duration in a patient > 1 month of age . |
| 3 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 4 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 5 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 6 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 7 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 8 | But since the general feeling within the ICC is that cash rather than rotation counts for more , England could end up losing out . |
| 9 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 10 | I was horrified in nineteen ninety one with my first visit to see the enormous problems in housing three and a half million people were forcibly moved in the eighties in South Africa , the biggest peacetime movement of people anywhere in the world and there are now over seven million people in , just in the shacks on the roads , not even the informal housing which counts for more . |
| 11 | I have even used paper shims for more accuracy . |
| 12 | Sherwood looks for more such business on the back of BS5750 approval , fast becoming an essential requirement for government tenders . |
| 13 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 14 | The facility to support and track complex reasoning about events and system state allows for more certainty of judgement and fault elimination than that available via current approaches . |
| 15 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 16 | " Parent help allows for more reading aloud time and liberates the teacher to do more diagnostic work . " |
| 17 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5.12 , which allows for more grid dates at the short end of the maturity spectrum relative to the long end because of the greater difficulty of fitting the yield curve at the short end . |
| 18 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 19 | Still , the demand grows for more compensation , for better-defined danger zones , for tougher restrictions on food grown in contaminated areas . |
| 20 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 21 | These physical effects of withdrawal indicate that the physical body craves for more of the drug and that it is physiologically addicted . |
| 22 | MARTINA Navratilova 's bitter disappointment at the US Open left a bad taste in her mouth , but the winner of 18 Grand Slam titles still craves for more . |
| 23 | UN calls for more aid for Third World space satellites |
| 24 | Rose Jennings calls for more passion and less vague sentiment in anti-war art |
| 25 | The Institute calls for more flexibility in the regulations governing summary statements , as the technical language that is currently prescribed defeats the point of issuing a shorter , less complicated statement to shareholders . |
| 26 | EC Commissioner calls for more research funding |
| 27 | Anorexia tragedy … husband calls for more research after wife 's death . |
| 28 | This latter implicitly calls for more funding and hence an even more costly burden of regulation . |
| 29 | It calls for more policy agreements between agencies and a clearer statement of them from senior managers . |
| 30 | Apart from encouraging schools to opt out of council control , the Bill calls for more to specialise in key subjects such as technology , languages and the arts . |