Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many schools have , where possible , extended the provision to include more than one all-purpose Home Corner room , and sometimes children have a ‘ kitchen ’ , ‘ lounge ’ and ‘ bedroom ’ in which to play . |
| 2 | Many have blamed what they termed an inability to win on an inability to hit more than one shape of shot . |
| 3 | Just mating with a single female may be difficult enough and very few will have the opportunity to mate more than once a year . |
| 4 | There have also been attempts to promote more humane-looking alternatives such as restitution and reconciliation ( for example , Wright , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Current attempts to promote more energetic competition and entrepreneurial risk swim against the dominant tide of upper-class values , which continue to be reproduced . |
| 6 | Above all , research of the kind described above is informative and helpful in some ways as a tool for looking with some objectivity at children 's writing ; but it does not isolate areas of difficulty or suggest teaching strategies to promote more effective writing . |
| 7 | She was looking at him now , wishing he would unbend a little more , maybe sit back and enjoy the evening , and allow his sleeked-back hair to fall more naturally about his face . |
| 8 | There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) . |
| 9 | They have announced plans to invest more than £38 million in the area and to attract a further £23 million from the private sector . |
| 10 | This case had the desired effect of persuading other recalcitrant authorities to proceed more quickly . |
| 11 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 12 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 13 | And her willingness to suffer more if need be . |
| 14 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 15 | Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity . |
| 16 | He also said he had asked Housing for Wales to step up its new building to provide more affordable homes for sale and shared ownership . |
| 17 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 18 | When the British Academy gives scholarships for methodological research and applications as well as for historical inquiries of a more familiar kind , when universities begin to make appointments in humanities computing or , dare I say it , even in history and computing , then , it seems to me , we will be in a better position to bemoan our inability to secure more in the way of government and private funding . |
| 19 | I mistrust a literature that finds suicide more significant than death , and a man 's inability to communicate more sorry than the frenzy of his need to . |
| 20 | Could the Government be prevailed upon to persuade the City institutions to provide more positive assistance for depositors , creditors and former employees of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ? |
| 21 | Analytical chemistry is also helping archaeologists at Liverpool University to discover more about the diet of our ancestors . |
| 22 | The various attempts to find more female aspects to the tradition can retrieve very little . |
| 23 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 24 | It has prompted calls by the FPA for GPs and family planning clinics to work more closely together to improve services . |
| 25 | For some strange reason it was causing her breath to quicken , which in turn was causing her heart to hammer more rapidly . |
| 26 | From Friday to Sunday this week , the Autumn Franchise Exhibition at Birmingham 's NEC will provide a unique opportunity to meet more than 100 new and established franchise companies , under the umbrella of the BFA . |
| 27 | Examples of these are the Commission 's own proposals to extend privileges for unconvicted prisoners on remand to convicted prisoners awaiting sentence [ which will encourage early guilty pleas ] and the adjustment of legal aid fee scales to encourage more early preparatory work by counsel so that important decisions are not made at the last minute . |
| 28 | Palmer also mapped out DEC 's plans to work more closely with its major partners Ing C Olivetti & Co and Microsoft Corp , as well as building up its systems integration side of its business . |
| 29 | This role , first suggested by the pope in July 1324 , came about because Edward refused to send his son to do homage to Charles for Gascony , but relied instead on Isabella to secure more acceptable terms . |
| 30 | The students are visiting three French cities to discover more about the single European market , an entity which probably received a severe setback last weekend . |