Example sentences of "[verb] to more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished . |
| 2 | Mr Friere , who used to call his gallery fiction/non-fiction , decided to change its name when the gallery recently moved to more spacious quarters on Prince St. |
| 3 | Many are attracted to more pleasant housing in the New Towns which are being built . |
| 4 | PRESCRIPTION charges are set to soar to more than £4 as Chancellor Norman Lamont fails to heal Britain 's sick economy . |
| 5 | Micrografx has replied to CorelDRAW with a similar suite of programs , called Graphics Works , which will appeal to more casual graphics users . |
| 6 | That is not to say we should adopt the hard sell or abandon our traditional value , but we must seriously examine how we can appeal to more desperate scattered membership . |
| 7 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 8 | Layers of management will be stripped away , and all except core functions will be subcontracted to more efficient , specialist firms . |
| 9 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 10 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 11 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 12 | The death toll from an army offensive launched on Saturday rose to more than 60 as the federal forces pounded targets from the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik to the besieged Danube river town of Vukovar . |
| 13 | Protector Somerset held the number of privy councillors around twenty , but under the Duke of Northumberland it rose to more than thirty . |
| 14 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |
| 15 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 16 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 17 | Confidence has risen since Christmas as prices dropped to more realistic levels . |
| 18 | It 's happening to more and more people and right across the social spectrum . |
| 19 | Some names had been crossed off , as teachers had died at their posts , or departed to more luxuriant scholastic pastures . |
| 20 | But she was beginning to realise that there was no real reason to leap to more worrying conclusions . |
| 21 | Results showed that the relationship between the target and context had a strong effect on performance ; words which were highly predictable were responded to more quickly than words which were unlikely , while anomalous words produced the slowest response times of all . |
| 22 | A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January . |
| 23 | It was they who bore the brunt of efforts by employers to restructure , shift to more intensive labour , subject them to closer supervision from above , and in some cases introduce new machinery which dispensed with their skills . |
| 24 | Robert Lowe , 3i 's industrial adviser in the leisure sector , said the recession had resulted in acquisition prices returning to more sensible levels . |
| 25 | Generally , photographs of the grave-goods were published with line-drawings confined to more ornate pieces . |
| 26 | Here the discussion is confined to more general types of tortious liability , such as that arising from negligent acts or omissions . |
| 27 | There is pressure from conservationist groups to make farmers earn their pay , perhaps by building stone walls or reverting to more traditional husbandry methods . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) referred to more genuine equality for women . |
| 29 | The additional organising effort , however , brought in extra resources of no more than £pound394 , and could hardly have amounted to more than 450 paying members , suggesting a total membership of less than 5,200 . |
| 30 | Our small scale numbers confirm the earlier studies quoted , that is , that older children especially , seem able to distinguish between different types of relationships and to have the capacity to relate to more than one set of parent figures simultaneously . |