Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just lies and more lies . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Robinson had learnt all that he wanted to know and more than he cared to hear . |
| 6 | fairly elementary surveying but more or less I know how to use |
| 7 | But by this weekend , 850 had applied and more are still coming in . |
| 8 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 9 | More can be done and more is being done and we shall encourage the industry to go out and get more business wherever it is ; but it has made a good start . |
| 10 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 11 | New schools and colleges had to be built and more teachers had to be trained and employed . |
| 12 | As more artefacts were collected and more sites discovered and excavated , the need for some method of ordering the information became more urgent , and so developed the techniques of dating . |
| 13 | This means that fewer cereal crops ( such as oats ) are grown and more land is put down to grass . |
| 14 | Gradually it dried and more would be added until the eyelashes were laden . |
| 15 | There was more attacking when I played and more chances . |
| 16 | Boxing is certainly a business ; great fortunes are made and more are kept than before . |
| 17 | Well , if people if women do get the higher positions of power , do you think that we 'll see different kinds of decisions made and more factors taken into account that will affect women ? |
| 18 | No canal crossing the constantly changing contours of the English Midlands ever had enough water , so a significant increase in traffic would only be possible if existing supplies were conserved and more supplies developed . |
| 19 | Women in middle-class occupations have more qualifications to acquire and more of a career structure to protect than women in manual or routine jobs . |
| 20 | On most farms the division of labour has not reached anything like the level of most factories and there is a wider variety of jobs to perform and more job rotation . ’ |
| 21 | More research needed and more discoveries ahead … |
| 22 | This invokes the operation of vicious circles , involving deforestation for arable cultivation and fuelwood underpinned by rapidly increasing population pressure ; as land is degraded by accelerated erosion , even steeper slopes are cultivated and more forest is cleared . |
| 23 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 24 | Fewer apples were produced and more were imported . |
| 25 | As time passes grows and more information on A's type is revealed . |
| 26 | It is hard to see how the system can be deformed further without losing both face and more cases at the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , as Ian Harper reveals in Personal Finance , that too places unconscionable constraints on those companies that wish to grow and more may be forced to follow Scottish Equitable 's example of doing a deal with a big external investor , if not go for wholesale demutualisation . |
| 28 | The guns could be sold and more of the furniture . |
| 29 | During construction in the mid-nineteenth century , it was apparent that our street had been better planned , with better material used and more care taken . |
| 30 | In the course of this odyssey , and at a time when travel was usually uncomfortable and often dangerous , he travelled nearly eighty thousand kilometres on horseback and spent some £30,000 of his own money in his determination to improve prison conditions ; he entered prisons in disguise in defiance of governments who feared the power of his pen ; was captured by pirates ; quelled a riot single handed and more than earned John Wesley 's tribute to him as ‘ one of the greatest men in Europe ’ . |