Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I.e. we want to create the impression that we are good people to do business with , so our customers come back and buy more of our books , so that makes more money for the company , which means they can pay us more money . |
| 2 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 3 | If Ferdinando left the Brownings service and came in with her , adopting his rightful position , then she could manage even better and take more boarders and they would be self-supporting besides living together always . |
| 4 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 5 | This does n't apply if the ritual is completed , since the circle will have exploded outwards and had more serious effects . |
| 6 | Put one piece of salmon skinside down and spread more of the mixture over the cut side . |
| 7 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 8 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 9 | With a loyal and loving woman behind him and the semblance of domestic life , he hoped that at last Modi would settle down and produce more paintings . |
| 10 | Commander Briggs had counselled Blanche to calm down and accept more of the things in the police she could not change . |
| 11 | They strode down and found more news already arriving . |
| 12 | This heavy burden of debt , especially among consumers , is a plausible reason why spending has slowed in recent months : borrowers are striving to ease their financial position by spending less and saving more than they otherwise would . |
| 13 | I was going to say , when it comes to paragraph five , do you erm suggest that you actually think in terms of church organisations , they 're not mentioned , and I look forward in in paragraph seven one to the seminar , the working seminar that 's going to be in the near future , and I hope that we 'll soon get a date , so that we can get it in our very busy diaries , in the hope that we can come along and learn more about this . |
| 14 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 15 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 16 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 17 | This move can be interpreted either as yet another instance of poor central-local ties or as deliberate slowness so as to let more money flow into public funds . |
| 18 | This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts . |
| 19 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
| 20 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 21 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 22 | Mrs Woodie felt half inclined to lend her some , so as to have more to sort out and put away . |
| 23 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 24 | He speaks more slowly , leans more eagerly , so as to offer more opportunity to the mimics ; smiles more disarmingly at the result . |
| 25 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 26 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 27 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 28 | He knew the details better than most of us , but somehow that caused more resentment than if he had left the specifics to us . ’ |
| 29 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 30 | A simple propagator will help you raise seedlings more easily and achieve more success with cuttings . |