Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police must surely have carried out a more thorough examination of the rooms since the discovery of the body . |
| 2 | But if we want to give a definite end to the melody we can bring in a more complete restatement of the original theme . |
| 3 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 4 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 5 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 6 | However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . |
| 7 | Almost 20 years later , at 38 , she is living out a more successful fantasy . |
| 8 | Gibbons 's predecessor , D. Allan Bromley , believed that the government could carry out no more than five or six major initiatives at once because of the time and resources required to coordinate activities among as many as a dozen agencies . |
| 9 | And there was little hope that government intervention would bring about a more flexible cinema industry . |
| 10 | Dover 's crucial insight was the surprising realisation that the slow , gradual homogenisation of a gene family by these internal mechanisms could bring about a more or less synchronous genetic change in a sexually reproducing population . |
| 11 | Last year the government turned down a more ambitious National Coal Board proposal for three mines in and around the vale . |
| 12 | One Home has drawn up a more extensive list of practical rights which goes into detail about every aspect of life in the Home . |
| 13 | No theatre producer could have dreamed up a more dramatic introduction . |
| 14 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 15 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 16 | All very sensible — but there are no safeguards to stop a future Secretary of State drawing up a more political booklist . |
| 17 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 18 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 19 | By 1988 , married couples with children made up no more than 26 per cent of all households in Britain . |
| 20 | The only gain from what at times were acrimonious exchanges may be that the British Boxing Board of Control will renew its vigilance in the protection of its licensed boxers , before a campaign to stop boxing takes on a more menacing shape for those involved in the business . |
| 21 | I will argue that a major readjustment needs to be made whereby the researcher takes on a more participative role working with and alongside practitioners and clients . |
| 22 | TRAINING CENTRE TAKES ON A MORE COMPETITIVE EDGE |
| 23 | Dasbabu is still the boss in Bhagyanagar but nowadays takes on a more laid-back attitude to village affairs . |
| 24 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 25 | With Mick Talbot in the producer 's chair , this boasts a full-bodied sound that takes up a more relaxed , less esoteric stance than ‘ In Search Of The 13th Note ’ , concentrating its positive energies on the music as well as the lyrics . |
| 26 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 27 | Pearl 's share price stands at 648p as hopes mount in the market that the Australian 's interest will flush out a more determined bidder which will offer more . |
| 28 | To carry out a more detailed examination of the existing activities and functional groupings each sub-system of the post-ERA model was expanded , and the ideas and information generated during the exercise used to explore the real situation . |
| 29 | It is a question which will take on a more hard-nosed approach once the euphoria of post-World Cup celebrations die down and the reality of the 1992 season , with the test challenges of Scotland and the All Blacks plus the Wallaby tour of Ireland and Wales and possibly South Africa , arrives . |
| 30 | We could not take on a more difficult nation that Iran . |