Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If concern for B 's predicament as a pure matter of justice were not sufficient to convince the Court that it should have exercised its discretion in B's favour , the Convention arguments ought to carry more weight . |
| 2 | If it succeeds , Malays in other states may want more Islam , strengthening the religious hardliners within UMNO . |
| 3 | Looking ahead , as you get older you may want more home comforts . |
| 4 | ‘ A king or his lords may want more land . |
| 5 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 6 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 7 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 8 | The professional may make more effort , knowing that the client is paying good money for his or her services , in a society that values things that are paid for and tends to devalue those that are not . |
| 9 | During the periods of active regional policy , emigration from development areas declines and there is also the possibility that during such periods firms may make more people redundant , in the knowledge that the chances of finding employment are greater . |
| 10 | As Matthew gets older and larger , we may need more help . |
| 11 | This type may need more height than width . |
| 12 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
| 13 | Further information : Your local community health council is an organisation which helps people who may need more information about local health services . |
| 14 | That may tempt more Governments to introduce more Bills there . |
| 15 | Publicity around President Mitterand 's recent diagnosis may alert more men to the possibility of this form of cancer . |
| 16 | I hope they will get used to that because it is indispensable that some people should make more money . |
| 17 | I think you should make more effort to find out about places like this , and I think the schools should make an effort to tell you . |
| 18 | According to the " psycholinguistic guessing game " view of reading the good readers should make more use of the context than the poor readers , and in comparison with the neutral context they should perhaps show greater facilitation effects from congruous context and greater interference from the incongruous context . |
| 19 | They demanded that creditors should grant more debt relief and that the IMF should increase its assistance to poorer countries . |
| 20 | By the same token we should build more fighter aircraft so that expensively trained officers may be ‘ enabled to get back to work . ’ |
| 21 | Peattie and some others were converted to the view that they should build more 120MW sets in 1952 , but Shakeshaft and Pask remained attached to a conservative mix of 30MW and 60MW units , with only a cautious experimentation with larger sets . |
| 22 | No politician should promise more spending without having the honesty to say how the bills will be paid . |
| 23 | At Waterloo , the L&SWR headquarters , there was much to do ; many platforms had to be replanned and the rebuilding of the terminus speeded up , but Walker saw at once that he must entice more commuters , and his electrification of the London suburban lines , which was to be pursued long after he was running the future Southern Railway , was of lasting significance . |
| 24 | Do you think drama school should include more training for television and film ? |
| 25 | Again , this means that 15,000 advice workers , both experienced and inexperienced , must undergo more training . |
| 26 | The control of working capital is an everyday activity and managers should direct more attention say to stock levels of consumable items . |
| 27 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 28 | Law makers , givers and enforcers should show more understanding and sympathy in the face of intolerable provocation . |
| 29 | Should do more exercises . |
| 30 | You also said that the government sh should should do more supply housing . |