Example sentences of "have [verb] on a more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , Exmoor National Park has decided on a more active policy of land purchase as the only sure way of conserving existing agricultural landscapes . |
| 2 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 3 | The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note . |
| 4 | First , practitioners , lacking the time and resources to carry out exhaustive analyses , may have to operate on a more limited , probabilistic basis . |
| 5 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |