Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
| 2 | You 'd think with my connections at the National Gallery , Washington , and the Virginia Museum and Yale that I would know more people in the field , but I just do n't . |
| 3 | My PC manual says that I can add more memory in 2Mb modules . |
| 4 | I 'm convinced that I should lose more weight , then no one could be thinner than I am . |
| 5 | My request was dismissed with some amusement by my parents who added that I should have more sense than to believe in all that mumbo-jumbo . |
| 6 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 7 | She remembered the doctor telling her , as gently as he could , that it was unlikely that she would have more children , and the shocked look on her husband 's face when he heard the news . |
| 8 | She supposed that she ought to spend more time at the place , but was always thankful when she was once again on the road back to London . |
| 9 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 10 | Dr Lazenby at Lorton had said that she should take more rest : as if that were possible with a farm , an inn , a husband and a daughter to work and worry about . |
| 11 | I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’ |
| 12 | When offered a post in the Labour government of 1964 she refused , saying that she could do more fighting for the government in Liverpool . |
| 13 | You actually have three children under the age of seven , and if your husband died while they were still young , still in education , heaven forbid , but these things still do happen , it might be that you think that you would need more cover at that point in time , than later on , maybe when the children have left home . |
| 14 | You are n't going anywhere where there 's the slightest chance that you could cause more trouble . |
| 15 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 16 | Try to have both roof and side vents so that you can have more control over the greenhouse environment . |
| 17 | I do know that you will have more peace if you can grasp how crucial relinquishment is , how utterly safe it is to place your children in God 's sure hands . ’ |
| 18 | A further advantage is that you will have more flexibility as to when you can retire . |
| 19 | Capitanchik : Will it also mean that you will have more training programmes for these people now that they are more permanently employed ? |
| 20 | On the subject of Leeds fans , I strongly believe that you will get more effort from a player who supports the club … and I think wherever possible you should get those players . |
| 21 | Promotions of labour-saving gadgets encourage us to save time on household chores , so that we 'll have more time for leisure and recreation . |
| 22 | Both wind and current were still unseasonably favourable for Makassar , but Tandri decided , probably wisely , that we would need more ballast from the beach at Likangloe . |
| 23 | The police er do n't refer a lot of things to us , I know it 's difficult but er I feel that we ought to have more occasions er where er we are made aware of things that happen and then we can help er in various ways by referrals to those agencies and of course , financially . |
| 24 | I want to take issue with the idea that children are in any simple sense appropriating gender roles from the texts they consume , and argue instead that we should pay more attention to the social process which structure gendered readings . |
| 25 | I 'm not arguing that we should put more vehicles round the North Eastern side , I 'm just thinking that this traffic use reflects the , the imbalance in the region . |
| 26 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 27 | Research has proved that we can eat more carbohydrate calories than fat calories and still lose weight ! |
| 28 | This can obviously be extended to allow a range of different sizes of operation code field , so that we can provide more operation codes for less secondary information ( such as operand fields ) in a fixed instruction length . |
| 29 | I mean why is n't there a tremendous outcry , saying this must change , we can still have democracy , but let's have reasonable , sensible , working hours in parliament so that we can get more women into parliament . |
| 30 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |