Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The posturing must stop , concerted steps taken and some of the money being channelled into development should be redirected into more stringent enforcement of anti-doping measures . |
| 2 | Should your flight be delayed for more than two hours after the scheduled departure time , Enterprise will provide the following : |
| 3 | Later concerning pedestrians , she hopes that a pedestrian requiring an eight second gap to cross a stream of 600 veh/hr will not be delayed for more than 30 seconds . |
| 4 | The CML accepted the force of this objection , and proposed instead that any rule , if introduced , should require solicitors simply to inform lenders immediately if it were evident that completion would be delayed by more than 3 days — a view which appeared to be supported by a considerable number of other respondents . |
| 5 | The central principle of Poor Law policy in this period was that a clear distinction could be made between the deserving ‘ helpable ’ and the ‘ residuum ’ , who were to be coerced into more socially acceptable behaviour . |
| 6 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 7 | Because this approach appears to generate some undesirable side-effects , this chapter concludes by arguing that closer attention should be given to more direct ways of influencing migration patterns . |
| 8 | In other ways positive help could be given by more fortunate regions . |
| 9 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 10 | But equally , in many cases such degradation can be halted by more careful consideration of environmental processes and social requirements , as this chapter has shown . |
| 11 | It is as if the monarchy is not a value in itself , but needs to be justified by more basic and universally accepted values . |
| 12 | In the Laming list , theses may be listed under more than one heading , and so the total figures represent the total numbers of sub-discipline headings assigned to Scottish theses , rather than the numbers of theses . |
| 13 | Resources were finite and the £1million a day cost to the taxpayer of building the Sizewell B pressurised water reactor could be diverted to more cost-effective alternatives . |
| 14 | It recommends formula milk be heated in volumes of at least 4 oz and that 8 oz bottles should not be heated for more than 45 seconds . |
| 15 | The same program can be placed in more than one Program Group . |
| 16 | Any such classification is bound to be somewhat arbitrary and , as Willett acknowledges , many groups can be placed in more than one category . |
| 17 | authorization may be assigned to more than one person |
| 18 | These identifications are part of the reason for their continued autonomy from the lowlands , in that they prevent the Buid from developing internal hierarchies which could be manipulated by more powerful state societies . |
| 19 | Once your family have tasted the unique flavour of Basmati rice , they 'll be clamouring for more ! |
| 20 | It is important to note that a mosaic can be considered at more than one level — and conceivably at all levels — of affinity . |
| 21 | These problems can only be resolved by more elaborate and sophisticated calculations . |
| 22 | Any package in the structure which is to be updated and approved must not be contained in more than 30 other packages . |
| 23 | When you look at it next time , solutions may suggest themselves , and it can be looked at more objectively . |
| 24 | Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer . |
| 25 | In Vietnam , they were probably pre-eminent and could certainly lay the largest claim to ‘ control ’ of operational areas on the other side of the Chinese frontier in Tonkin even though their simultaneous claim to the status of ‘ resistance ’ forces needs to be looked at more closely . |
| 26 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
| 27 | Budgets are a particularly useful vehicle for the expression of quantifiable results , and will be looked at more closely later in the chapter . |
| 28 | After all , if religious beliefs did furnish presupposition , sanction , and motivation for science , they might be looked upon more favorably in an otherwise secular society . |
| 29 | If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost . |
| 30 | New conveyancers should not allow themselves to be bullied by more senior members of the profession who have had years of experience . |