Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 2 | The National Curriculum is rightly demanding much more . |
| 3 | Azhag was not entirely Azhag any more , the immeasurably strong personality of Nagash was gradually eating him away . |
| 4 | She could n't pretend to be sophisticated and flippant and terribly cool any more . |
| 5 | The words people use are too often interpreted literally to signify little more than their immediate and most rational translation . |
| 6 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 7 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 8 | No one is clear where the situation can now lead ; they are only aware that the blanket of fear is suddenly not so suffocating any more . |
| 9 | He wondered if Irina had gone out , perhaps to buy some more clothes . |
| 10 | Contemporary studies of Wilson by , for example , or perhaps even are apparently based much more on fragmented material than Bullett and Freud , Freud would allow . |
| 11 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 12 | Of the letters I wrote to Eliot and kept copies I reproduce one , which might perhaps have some more permanent interest than the ephemera . |
| 13 | Only worried any more |
| 14 | But if you recycle land already used by housing , you do n't necessarily get any more or any fewer dwellings . |
| 15 | I hope that Opposition Members will use their influence with Labour-controlled councils to improve their performance and so put many more such properties back into use . |
| 16 | you better get some more paper please |
| 17 | Anyway I 'd better put some more in yours |
| 18 | This doctor obviously had much more acumen than the locals . |
| 19 | One must conclude that such sources were available to the master potters , but it is also evident that peripheral factories were content merely to copy those more skilled in the art , with the crude results one must expect . |
| 20 | It is encouraging to note that , since 1977 , not only have many more churches been listed , but a serious effort has also been made to find new uses for a much higher percentage of redundant churches — although procedures remain unnecessarily complicated and frustrating . |
| 21 | Even if you personally have much more of a weight problem than this dieter , do not try to speed up change too much . |
| 22 | I obviously wanted some more but it was very expensive : coke sells for between £80 and £120 per gram , and a gram 's not a lot at all . |
| 23 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 24 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 25 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 26 | He had vague memories of a brother who apparently did not exist any more . |
| 27 | I do n't understand , because the address does not exist any more . ’ |
| 28 | Of course , I 'd expect you to sign an affidavit promising not to extort any more money from Corosini . ’ |
| 29 | She would like to have stayed a littlke longer to see some more of the country |
| 30 | She would like to have stayed a littlke longer to see some more of the country |