Example sentences of "more [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his hand started once more to ascend the bare slope of her thigh , she tightened , immeasurably , her knees , and his hand halted . |
| 2 | Work on restoring Leith Hill Tower has been completed and visitors can now climb the tower once more to enjoy the views . |
| 3 | Will she do more to publicise the results of the recent negotiations on that issue ? |
| 4 | Inside the bedroom Kate began once more to search the room . |
| 5 | The SDP leader , Dr David Owen , supporting Mr Hurd said ‘ the answer to Mr Tebbit is , after what happened in Tiananmen Square , honour demands that this House needs to do more to sustain the prosperity and security of Hong Kong ’ . |
| 6 | It could be true , of course , and there was more to support the idea than Zohra knew . |
| 7 | ( Of the 36 US states which used the death penalty , only three used gas , which , it was alleged , could take 12 minutes or more to kill a condemned prisoner . ) |
| 8 | In 1989 , Islander crossed the Bay of Biscay once more to cruise the north coast of Spain from San Sebastian to Santander . |
| 9 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 10 | Most aggressive encounters serve more to confirm the existing social hierarchy than to change it . |
| 11 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 12 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 13 | And nodding his head in agreement with that , Mr Wolski took his broom and went off down the path away from the Cages , for it saddened him more and more to see the eagles there . |
| 14 | LONDON soccer fans pay more to see the game than anyone else in the country . |
| 15 | Some evenings it would be a small group of half-a-dozen close friends , on red-letter nights a gathering of 100 or more to greet a visiting celebrity . |
| 16 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 17 | By contrast , we want to do more to encourage the wider distribution of wealth throughout society . |
| 18 | Some analysts hope that the government will do more to encourage the spread of private pension funds to supplement the state 's creaky pay-as-you-go retirement system . |
| 19 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 20 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 22 | It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel . |
| 23 | He was thankful , too , that Len Brayton had healed the rift between him and his father , so that he was able once more to visit the family home . |
| 24 | No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom . |
| 25 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 26 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 27 | Nitrates take a decade or more to reach the level of boreholes . |
| 28 | Its hummocked floor is studded with shafts which descend a further twelve feet or more to reach the water-table . |
| 29 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 30 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |