Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] more [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 2 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 3 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 4 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 5 | It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours . |
| 6 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 8 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 9 | It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry . |
| 10 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 11 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |
| 12 | For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens . |
| 13 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
| 14 | The PQB is calling the initiative ‘ unit banking ’ , and hopes that it will encourage more publishers to become registered as centres . |
| 15 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |