Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In describing the negotiations for Æthelred 's return from exile in 1014 , this says that the king was informed that no lord was dearer to them than their native lord , if he would govern them more justly ( rihtlicor ) than before , and that he then promised to remedy the things that they all hated . |
| 2 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 3 | In Bavaria doctors are being offered budgets to help make them more choosy about patient-care . |
| 4 | Of all the requests made by those patients who come to consult me , the most common by far is for me to ‘ make them more confident ’ . |
| 5 | Diabetic patients may have a damaged myocardium due to extensive atheroma and/or small-vessel cardiomyopathy before infarction ( Hamby et al , 1974 ; Regan et al , 1977 ; Factor et al , 1980 ) , which would make them more likely to develop cardiogenic shock or heart failure . |
| 6 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 7 | Apart from eliminating the tiresome sexual preoccupations of our pets , it will also make them more affectionate and more playful . |
| 8 | VIRGINIA Bottomley thinks that making patients write their own prescriptions will make them more responsible for their health . |
| 9 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 10 | I mean it was like years ago I heard things about Down 's children with holes in the heart and why bother to do it , but now everything 's changing — let's make them more normal . |
| 11 | Developing managerial skills in nurses will make them more equal and effective members of the multidisciplinary team . |
| 12 | Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity . |
| 13 | These might include : a ) providing encouragement and support for young women and ethnic minority students to try for jobs they have not traditionally applied for ; b ) provision by employers of Work Experience placements to schools from which they have not previously recruited ; c ) reducing sex-stereotyping in Work Experience ; d ) enriching the curriculum in science and technology subjects in ways which will make them more attractive to young women ; e ) improving education and training opportunities for young people with disabilities . |
| 14 | We do not deny that some characteristics of prison inmates may make them more or less likely to cause problems — if the prisons predominantly housed old people or nuns rather than young men with past records of anti-social behaviour they would doubtless experience fewer riots . |
| 15 | I think women have got children to be responsible for and that does make them more responsible and careful drivers |
| 16 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 17 | Dependency increases where care is poor , and homes taking in low dependency clients can soon make them more dependent by providing too few activities and too many sedatives . |
| 18 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 19 | It does n't make them more adventurous but when they do climb you can see them looking for footholds . |
| 20 | If only these young women would see how feminism could make them more womanly . |
| 21 | Even retrofitting of flue gas desulphurisation at the big coal stations would not make them more expensive than some gas burn . |
| 22 | This in turn could make them more likely to survive a second mutation at the p53 locus ( which is frequently seen in cancer cells ) , or indeed at any other locus . |
| 23 | It will also make them more sellable . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd think it would make them more sane and agreeable than the norm . |
| 25 | We have overhauled the plans in some of the companies , we 've considered changes that should be done to erm make them more , actually more cost effective for the employee , there 's an element of shifting the cost to the employee while still providing them with coverage and I think the other thing is that erm given the the redundancies that have gone on in Camco and other parts of the group and cost cutting generally , it 's very difficult at this stage to predict you have all sorts of things like actuarial assumptions erm cost inflation of medical costs . |
| 26 | As the children get used to your interventions , you can make them more challenging . |
| 27 | He says this would make them more streamlined , understandable , and efficient . |
| 28 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 29 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 30 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |