Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | If concern for B 's predicament as a pure matter of justice were not sufficient to convince the Court that it should have exercised its discretion in B's favour , the Convention arguments ought to carry more weight . |
| 2 | Other things you may eat more of during summer — and which all are common allergens — are cola drinks , shellfish , pineapples , cherries and plums . |
| 3 | However , smokers may inhale more in order to compensate for reduced nicotine intake and may eventually take in as much , or possible more tar [ 6 ] . |
| 4 | If it succeeds , Malays in other states may want more Islam , strengthening the religious hardliners within UMNO . |
| 5 | Looking ahead , as you get older you may want more home comforts . |
| 6 | ‘ A king or his lords may want more land . |
| 7 | Once a model incorporating a manufacturer with some monopoly power and ( say ) a monopolistically competitive retail sector has been set up , it becomes apparent that manufacturer and retailer interests diverge ; the retailers may want more or less margin than the manufacturer would like to impose . |
| 8 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 9 | During the periods of active regional policy , emigration from development areas declines and there is also the possibility that during such periods firms may make more people redundant , in the knowledge that the chances of finding employment are greater . |
| 10 | The professional may make more effort , knowing that the client is paying good money for his or her services , in a society that values things that are paid for and tends to devalue those that are not . |
| 11 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 12 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 13 | To be happy and settled in a winning province is therefore very important to the top players and for once this may count more than attractive job offers and other benefits . |
| 14 | Average sales values for both hardware and software may also be different from the figures we have chosen and people may buy more or fewer discs for their players . |
| 15 | Further information : Your local community health council is an organisation which helps people who may need more information about local health services . |
| 16 | This type may need more height than width . |
| 17 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
| 18 | As Matthew gets older and larger , we may need more help . |
| 19 | That may tempt more Governments to introduce more Bills there . |
| 20 | that that it it is in fact something that ought to be shared more and people ought to benefit more from what 's here ? |
| 21 | I 'm very much cap-in-hand when people come — they may know more than I do . |
| 22 | They may know more than they realize , for it may be only on the occasion of a question that they see or realize applications and utilities of writings with which they are perfectly familiar . |
| 23 | But of course the writer 's assumptions may be mistaken : the reader may know more or less than has been assumed , in which case the negotiation will falter . |
| 24 | Publicity around President Mitterand 's recent diagnosis may alert more men to the possibility of this form of cancer . |
| 25 | I hope they will get used to that because it is indispensable that some people should make more money . |
| 26 | They should make more of them like that . |
| 27 | It has romped in with profits of £5m since it was acquired from the Virgin airlines boss in June and should make more than Pounds 40m to £50m in the full year . |
| 28 | According to the " psycholinguistic guessing game " view of reading the good readers should make more use of the context than the poor readers , and in comparison with the neutral context they should perhaps show greater facilitation effects from congruous context and greater interference from the incongruous context . |
| 29 | I think you should make more effort to find out about places like this , and I think the schools should make an effort to tell you . |
| 30 | But there is goodwill , we should make more of that should n't we , |