Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |
| 2 | As well as the influence of collective bargaining , a further thesis put forward to help explain more general inter-country membership differences relates to the effects of concentration of capital . |
| 3 | Where our competitive position is weak , we have continued to divest assets to help fund more profitable ventures elsewhere and build on our areas of strength . |
| 4 | The Solo 's engine is mounted just behind the optional rear seats , well towards the middle of the car , to help achieve more even weight distribution . |
| 5 | While local government was responsible for public health , and for the rudimentary planning , housing and hospital functions required to help achieve more sanitary urban areas , education was made the responsibility of separately elected school boards . |
| 6 | South Tees Health Authority plans to help people stop smoking , to help create more smoke-free places and to try to stop young people from starting . |
| 7 | Kelly herself helped raise more than £15,000 for the Kelly Good Appeal . |
| 8 | A number of measures have been taken in the 1980 Housing Act to help release more rented accommodation . |
| 9 | She did not dare say more . |
| 10 | England 's bowlers clearly save their best deliveries for these five-minute breaks , so would more breaks mean more much-needed wickets for England ? |
| 11 | The United States and Canada did experience more industrial unrest in the early seventies than in the fifties and sixties , and money wages rose faster . |
| 12 | I think having a car you do make more unnecessary journeys — when you 're on a bike or public transport you really have to plan well ahead . |
| 13 | A range of oil-based stains in a reasonable choice of shades have recently appeared on the market ; these give a more even colour , but they do dry more slowly . |
| 14 | He was right , she did know more . |
| 15 | By the time I went to college , I did feel more confident . |
| 16 | Even if Dr Kingdom did feel more for Heather than a doctor should for his patient , it does n't mean that had anything to do with her disappearance . ’ |
| 17 | It was still early so I did n't expect many customers , but I did expect more than one — me . |
| 18 | Indeed , there is a body of evidence ( Pidgeon 1967 ; Steedman 1980 ) which suggests that girls do achieve more highly in a single-sex environment . |
| 19 | In places the trees do grow more thickly and pines occur in some hilly areas . |
| 20 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 21 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 22 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 23 | Even when we do become more aware , how do we know whether what we are doing is ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ ? |
| 24 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 25 | But it is important to bear in mind that as one advances in life one 's pleasures and activities particularly do become more limited , and any substantial impairment in the limited amount of activity and movement which a person can undertake , in my view , becomes all the more serious on that account . |
| 26 | Ooh I 'll lose my voice up there today we 've done some really good things though try and do see more my hall is very full if he bothered to come to school he 'd have seen them ! |
| 27 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 28 | ‘ We do value our small business customers but generally we could avoid many problems if they did communicate more with us . ’ |
| 29 | Generally the people with the heaviest credit commitments do have more than one credit agreement ( not necessarily with the same firm ) going at the same time . |
| 30 | Institutions which do produce more complex programmes as a regular feature of their work need to have someone in charge of the operation to ensure that proper planning is done . |