Example sentences of "as [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ As well as opening more boutiques in England , France and Germany , I 'm working on ways of making the clothes cheaper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was little difference apparent between more- and less-frequent walkers , but it was noticeable that particular sub-groups stood out as experiencing more than their share of problems . |
| 12 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |
| 13 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 14 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 15 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 16 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 17 | New Historicism 's interest in larger cultural issues , with a current focus on the politics of reading , does offer a possible mode for addressing history as doing more than detailing localised concerns without slipping back into some grand historical narrative constructed through unaddressed critical assumptions . |
| 18 | If on the contrary , the mind thinks disturbing thoughts , like thinking of another man as having more riches or land , then feelings of envy , resentment and disappointment spread through the mind making the whole body cold and unhappy . |
| 19 | I also saw poor people as having more sense of community and warmth — as altogether nicer and more ideologically sound ! |
| 20 | The abolition was widely resisted , and was seen as having more to do with the government 's dislike of local policies , particularly those of the GLC , than with questions of how best to manage public administration . |
| 21 | It could influence individual fortunes directly as well as having more pervasive consequences for the economy as a whole . |
| 22 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 23 | This may seem to violate the definition of policy making as involving more than isolated decisions , yet individual professional judgements of this kind may cluster or have similarities that suggest implicit if not explicit policy decisions that are being made at the operational level . |
| 24 | More of our school leavers have qualifications than ever before , as do more of our work force . |
| 25 | More than 80 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds agreed with random breath testing and ID cards , as did more than half of the 15-17 age group . |
| 26 | German counter-attacks , though frustrated , followed , as did more torrential rain . |
| 27 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 28 | He speaks more slowly , leans more eagerly , so as to offer more opportunity to the mimics ; smiles more disarmingly at the result . |
| 29 | Mrs Woodie felt half inclined to lend her some , so as to have more to sort out and put away . |
| 30 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |