Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | To justify its existence , a conglomerate 's headquarters has to add more value than an independent business unit could get from outside advisers and banks . |
| 2 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 3 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 4 | Excepting internationally priced commodities , this meant that all developing countries had to export more in order to import the same amount of goods and services . |
| 5 | Dolly had to stifle more hysteria . |
| 6 | However , in this last case , in order to achieve this equality of earnings , ethnic-minority workers have to do more shift-work because their jobs are intrinsically worse paid . |
| 7 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 8 | And farmers had to grow more cereal and vegetable crops . |
| 9 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 10 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 11 | Naturally , the Ceauşescu clan had to possess more consumer goods than anyone else in order to assert their authority . |
| 12 | In the great cities , people had to make more choices for themselves as traditional social institutions like the family and the church lost their grip on the individual . |
| 13 | It means that the other people have to give more that 's why some of the churches , I think they 've found that their er , requests for their er er their er contributions , have gone up enormously ! |
| 14 | To compete with the more than 2,000 commercial banks which have sprung up in Russia since then , Sberbank has to do more than teach its staff to smile . |
| 15 | Miss Rose was n't lying , so Mrs Maybury had to know more than she 'd told them . |
| 16 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 17 | Germany had to import more of her food than did France but her landowners were saved as the French peasants had been . |
| 18 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 19 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 20 | Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch . |
| 21 | Sally-Anne had to stifle more giggles — by his conversation Mr Sands thought that the USA was roughly the size of Wales . |
| 22 | Many companies when needing to finance new projects have to raise more capital . |
| 23 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |