Example sentences of "be [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | An understanding of the processes involved in ‘ choice ’ and participation is essential if we are to include more girls , and members of other disadvantaged groups , and alienate fewer . |
| 2 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 3 | Doctors treating a blood disease which kills a hundred unborn babies a year , say they need new equipment if they 're to save more lives . |
| 4 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll be needing another hand , ’ he said , ‘ if you 're to have more stock . ’ |
| 6 | Longman and Heinemann are to publish more grammar titles , and Penguin is publishing yet another series of graded readers . |
| 7 | However , if artistic representations of my experience are to do more than merely reflect a personal trauma , it is imperative that the work connect with the common experiences of other women in the same or similar situations . |
| 8 | One way of absorbing the extra carbon dioxide would be to plant more trees . |
| 9 | It would now be an act of political madness further to raise them to support the pound ( as indeed it would be to sacrifice more of our reserves to the same purpose ) . |
| 10 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 11 | The purpose of tax relief would be to encourage more people to join private schemes , but this , in view of the deadweight cost , would be expensive . |
| 12 | The next step will be to adopt more of the North 's repressive emergency measures in order to contain the violence . |
| 13 | You mean I 'm to eat more ? ’ |
| 14 | Should the only answer be to tack more and more suburbs on to the edge of Reading and more ‘ executive housing ’ on to the fringes of Berkshire or Hampshire villages ? |
| 15 | A second apparent option would be to take more students without additonal funding . |
| 16 | It seems to me unavoidable that one of the consequences would be to take more greenbelt land in West Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
| 18 | Another function of a work diary could be to substantiate more staff or accepting fewer patients , by demonstrating how efficiently nurses had worked and that staying late had been a necessity . |
| 19 | And schools in Thame are to get more help encouraging pupils to play more football under the Oxford United School Community Programme . |
| 20 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 21 | Well the motives are to offer more choice , to provide more competition in the credit card market and a better deal for customers and , to the extent that there are prices changes , we 'd expect them to be beneficial , particularly to those who are buying with cash or debit cards rather than credit cards . |
| 22 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 23 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 24 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and UNPROFOR were to designate more protection zones . |
| 25 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 26 | All , including women , were to have one vote , but the educated were to have more in proportion to the level of their education ; this , Mill believed , would provide a safeguard against the ignorance , selfishness and brutality which he so feared in the mass of the people . |
| 27 | The 90s were to feature more women victims of violence . |
| 28 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 29 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 30 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |