Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories of life before and during the 1939–1945 War paint a vivid picture of a market and railway town which will interest visitors and residents alike , although including more dates to put the stories into their context would have increased their value , particularly to new residents seeking to learn more about the area . |
| 2 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
| 3 | finance ministers and central bankers will be more concerned than generals and defence ministers to keep the cow healthy , well fed and growing than to extract more milk in the form of taxation from the wretched animal . |
| 4 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 5 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 6 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 7 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 8 | In a general election , in December , the Conservatives , although winning more seats in the House of Commons , than either the labour or Liberal parties , had fewer than their total . |
| 9 | This morning they offer no alternatives other than to spend more . |
| 10 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 11 | All other things equal , it looks as if producing more of the model is beneficial . |
| 12 | until took more responsibility because it was outside contractors you see |
| 13 | Well if do more and you do n't like it |
| 14 | Yet perhaps he is being precise , because to say more than he does would be inaccurate . |
| 15 | She retired before her husband , but continued to run her household according to her strict routine , while enjoying more of her own social life . |
| 16 | After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings . |
| 17 | Next , he says , SBUs may well form alliances outside the corporate group to obtain the same benefits as could be obtained by internal linkages while retaining more control over their situation . |
| 18 | Our task was to devise classroom practices which would maintain the imaginative developments of the 1960s while introducing more emphasis on craft and on the structures of language . |
| 19 | Large families in small flats or houses might pay less than individuals in larger ones while receiving more services . |
| 20 | He mounted the gelding , then turned to smile at her while offering more advice . |
| 21 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 22 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
| 23 | ‘ As well as opening more boutiques in England , France and Germany , I 'm working on ways of making the clothes cheaper . |
| 24 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 25 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 26 | Although these work on the same principles as the above they could prove an expensive luxury as well as causing more problems than they solve . |
| 27 | As well as adding more candidates , the draft law allows France 's seven-member privatisation commission to suggest names of investors who could form a ‘ noyau dur ’ , or stable core of shareholders , to protect privatised firms against takeover . |
| 28 | I REFER to the comments made by an anonymous smoker who mistakenly tried to justify smokers as paying more tax indirectly due to higher Government levy on cigarettes . |
| 29 | This move can be interpreted either as yet another instance of poor central-local ties or as deliberate slowness so as to let more money flow into public funds . |
| 30 | This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts . |