Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] more " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reason and Mycielska refer to this as a ‘ time-gap experience ’ and found that more than half their sample of 85 psychology undergraduates and postgraduates reported such experiences as happening more than once a month . |
| 32 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 33 | The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve . |
| 34 | The data show a wide range of strategies overall , and we would trust that more of these could enter the management vocabulary of more schools . |
| 35 | Shame that more did n't realise it before this farewell tour . |
| 36 | In GCSE , assuming the existing pattern continues , we can predict that more boys than girls will be entered at the top level , and proportionally more boys will gain grade A. |
| 37 | Just lies and more lies . ’ |
| 38 | THE jump in retail sales last month of 1.6 per cent was roughly twice what the City had expected and more than made good the disappointing fall of 1 per cent in December . |
| 39 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 40 | Schools can do much to improve discipline in schools without the use of sanctions — by motivating pupils ( emphasising and rewarding achievement ) , improving the physical environment , giving pupils more say and more responsibility , involving parents , and so on . |
| 41 | Robinson had learnt all that he wanted to know and more than he cared to hear . |
| 42 | fairly elementary surveying but more or less I know how to use |
| 43 | The holiday of a lifetime for a group of deprived schoolchildren may have to be cancelled because more than half of their business sponsors have gone bust in the recession . |
| 44 | Although I disagreed with some of what he said , I agree that we should consider whether more people can stay in their own homes . |
| 45 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 46 | Also , in the atmosphere of greater international competition of this period employers were increasingly aware of the need to increase productivity and realized that more secure conditions of life could promote higher output . |
| 47 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 48 | She thinks that more images of Black and Asian girls in the media would help to change some of the racist ideas and stereotypes that exist . |
| 49 | Mr Peter Lloyd , the Home Office junior minister , agreed that more powers for local authority inspectors were necessary , but to compel licensing of all breeders would place unnecessary restrictions on pet owners wanting to sell a litter . |
| 50 | The authority 's chairman John F. Davies agreed that more funding was needed for better health promotion in Wales . |
| 51 | In 1981 , the Wilson Committee recommended that more papers should be released within the 30-year period and that as few as possible should be withheld beyond 30 years . |
| 52 | It recommended that more grammar school places be provided , and that financial provision be improved for pupils who remained at school after the minimum leaving age . |
| 53 | Whilst not suggesting that more machinery is the answer , concentrating and adapting the farm to one enterprise was well worth consideration . |
| 54 | So in suggesting that more people are doing weird things to themselves these days , I plead caution . |
| 55 | To this end , it has produced advertisements suggesting that more lives could be at risk if people switched to smaller cars . |
| 56 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 57 | Two days after the unbanning of the ANC in February 1990 , the minister in charge of black education , Stoffel van der Merwe , announced that more money would be made available to the black education system . |
| 58 | It is intended that more trains will be run and the season extended in order to increase business revenue from all possible sources . |
| 59 | The official admitted that more prestigious types of education projects might seem more attractive than other , more mundane ones , but they have not yet had sufficient experience in ‘ selling ’ projects to be sure . |
| 60 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |