Example sentences of "[verb] with more [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game .
2 Could it have ever succeeded with more capital and drive behind it ?
3 Outdoors , sound will ‘ evaporate ’ , so you need to compensate with more power .
4 The entire first half consisted of film of Botham 's greatest moments , liberally interspersed with more film of him drinking the sponsor 's lager .
5 the Early Iron Age up to 500 AD , he said we can speak with more confidence .
6 She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late .
7 Catching Lucy 's expression , she added with more emphasis , ‘ Really , I will . ’
8 Then , as though unable to keep her thoughts to herself , she added with more force , ‘ I must say you 've changed during the last three years . ’
9 ‘ Come to think of it , ’ she added with more interest , ‘ what do they use them for ?
10 We look and listen with more attention if we are viewing for a purpose .
11 Luke could have done with more help , but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle .
12 He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers .
13 The three-times world champion has a good tale to tell and , while the format could have done with more meat on the bones , this volume certainly does not pull any punches .
14 I think Teresa felt very much as well that she could have done with more training on target setting and things like that .
15 But I would meet no one whose vision was more noble than David Ricalde 's or seen with more clarity : no one who invigorated me more , at a time when I needed it most .
16 Their much-derided ‘ copying ’ focus is now seen with more respect as showing a complete absence of the NIH ( not invented here ) syndrome that causes so many Western companies problems when new but not original ideas are introduced .
17 Then he started howling with more laughter .
18 Depressions are usually caused by tyre tracks and simply need filling with more gravel .
19 Since cats can see , hear and smell with more sensitivity than we can , it is reassuring to find that in one respect at least we have superior sense organs .
20 Trainer Roger Charlton was not present to outline plans for the son of 1987 ‘ Arc ’ hero Trempolino , but his travelling head man Martin Franklin said : ‘ Like his sire , I 'm sure that he 'll improve with more experience . ’
21 He 's a sound jumper already and can only improve with more experience .
22 Despite their far longer involvement in the Middle East , the members of the European Community felt inhibited from acting with more resolution than the United States .
23 " It is harde to be expected " , wrote one newsletter writer , " with what great joy and satisfaction his majesties have been proclaimed in most of the Citties " , whilst the Earl of Peterborough thought that never had a King been " proclaimed with more applause than he that raignes under the name of James the Second " .
24 ’ She could do with more responsibility . ’
25 A couple of design areas which could do with more thought are the hood and the pockets .
26 Your committee could do with more help and would just like to get to know some of you better … so PLEASE complete and return the Questionnaire on page 24 .
27 " I said she could do with more help . "
28 It could also do with more support for its keyboard .
29 Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice .
30 Hardy and Devos add a warmly expressive account of the Janáček Sonata , which could nevertheless do with more surge and abandon .
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