Example sentences of "to have more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | Things seemed to have more of a sense that they were leading somewhere . |
| 3 | A choreographer 's wish to exploit a particularly gifted dancer usually leads that dancer to develop more fully and to have more to give when cast in ballets by more objective choreographers . |
| 4 | Given our findings on perceptions we should expect the press to have more influence than television on attitudes . |
| 5 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 6 | A man ought to have more self-control . ’ |
| 7 | In the House of Commons sixty MPs tabled a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is treated by the media ’ , and ‘ calling on those responsible to have more concern for individual privacy ’ . |
| 8 | The Prince would no doubt also like to have more children , but he is very torn over the question of population control . |
| 9 | So it is possible to have more efficient use of energy but an increase in output from the sector which produces the most carbon dioxide . |
| 10 | The US proposal was designed to assuage European , particularly German , ambitions to have more influence in NATO 's nuclear forces without jeopardizing American control of the Western nuclear deterrent . |
| 11 | The fate of Kuwait is likely to have more influence over the answers than anything else . |
| 12 | Though heads are delighted to have more autonomy — they will now be able to hire a plumber without going through the town hall — many feel that they are being buried under a mountain of paperwork . |
| 13 | It also has trade and co-operation agreements with several Middle Eastern countries and wants to have more . |
| 14 | It seems that the use of a weapon is important in determining the legal classification of offences ( not surprisingly , since offences involving weapons may tend to have more serious consequences ) : some three-quarters of the serious woundings involved a weapon , whereas the proportion was only one-fifth for the less serious offences . |
| 15 | ‘ If parents do n't warn their children about the dangers , we are going to have more toddlers killed . ’ |
| 16 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 17 | Even more haunting was the trusting innocence of the Albanian director-general , who thought that the way to create a climate of real political debate was to have more television coverage . |
| 18 | ‘ We would like to have more foreign shareholders . |
| 19 | Almost everyone would like to have more money and many people daydream of being millionaires . |
| 20 | The Evening News reporter seemed to have more exact information than either myself or the War Office . |
| 21 | And , if the truth were known , they ought to have more like him . |
| 22 | An English grocer in south London , for example , seems to have more in common with a grocer in Berlin or Delhi or Yokohama than one in sixteenth-century London ; such common sense is politically dangerous in a nationalist world . |
| 23 | even such persons who worry about the ‘ lost ’ of land as Erik Eckholm , acknowledge that it is in our power to have more land if there is a will to work for it . |
| 24 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |
| 25 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 26 | I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’ |
| 27 | Is it a feeling you would like to have more often ? |
| 28 | The indirect link with Asian and African cattle by virtue of the possession of B-allele haemoglobin has already been mentioned but the Jersey seems to have more links with non-European cattle . |
| 29 | Many patients with Type 2 diabetes retain some degree of endogenous insulin production , and this may explain their tendency to have more stable blood glucose levels in contrast to patients with Type I diabetes . |
| 30 | Multiple batches can be made to have more similar spreads . |