Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major 's sporting friend , David Mellor , has been given the Ministry of National Heritage , which covers broadcasting , tourism , sport , and the arts , and thus has rather more to it than Waldegrave 's new outfit . |
| 2 | Back at the table I was in crepuscular mood for a few minutes , then bent once more to the task of diverting the wedding guests . |
| 3 | The promise of a new golden age of peace has faded , and the Elves and their new allies have looked once more to their weapons . |
| 4 | The French now seemed fully committed once more to a future of European co-operation . |
| 5 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 6 | But once she had tried it on , her spirits sank once more to unprecedented depths . |
| 7 | Psychology 's obsession with behaviourism owes far more to the fashion for logical positivism emerging from physicists in the 1930s than to any understanding of the needs of psychology . |
| 8 | She slept a little — perhaps he did too — then woke once more to the warm arousal of his kiss , the murmur of his voice against her ear , summoning her to another feast of delight . |
| 9 | The judge was entitled to conclude , as she did , that it would be wrong for the court to order that they should be moved once more to Australia with the possibility of yet a further move back again . |
| 10 | He paraded with Generals Howard and Miles in New York during the dedication of Grant 's Tomb , and appealed once more to be returned to his Wallowa home . |
| 11 | Her eyes dropped once more to the boxer shorts as embarrassed colour rose to her cheeks . |
| 12 | With the new device Henry could contribute far more to group meetings and to his own learning and development . |
| 13 | The answer to problem one was a makeshift modification which ultimately added even more to the Dalek 's appeal . |
| 14 | On his return to London in June , however , he caught a cold which aggravated his emphysema and his doctor advised him to go once more to Brighton in order to recuperate . |
| 15 | The celebrated preacher , Edward Irving ( 1792–1834 ) , who was at the height of his powers and still at peace with the Church of Scotland , had returned from London one Sabbath evening to preach once more to his own people . |
| 16 | With nowhere but the limited Drigg dump near Sellafield for low-level waste , and nowhere at all for intermediate-level , the authorities turned once more to mainland Britain to find an acceptable ‘ long term ’ solution . |
| 17 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 18 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 19 | Ian frowned and turned once more to the window . |
| 20 | Then , in 1210 , after Otto had revived the old imperial policies in Italy and had begun to oppress the Church , Innocent turned once more to Philip Augustus . |
| 21 | He will find it difficult to escape once more to the fastnesses of Cornwall without a horde of people eager to commission him clinging to his coat tails . |
| 22 | Turning once more to the campaign surrounding The Little Red Schoolbook this point should become clear . |
| 23 | In May 1469 Edward tried again , turning once more to the resources of the duchy of Lancaster . |
| 24 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 25 | I give him the thumbs-up sign and pointedly ignore him turning once more to the vigorous bucking of the waves . |
| 26 | In May 1469 Edward tried again , turning once more to the resources of the duchy of Lancaster . |
| 27 | The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes . |
| 28 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 29 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 30 | The expansion of business and industry in all the main ports and towns of Scotland also brought with it an influx of work-hungry ‘ inlanders ’ , as well as islanders , adding even more to the tensions . |