Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Second Division club fear they will be allotted 17,800 tickets if Liverpool overcome Portsmouth at Villa Park , though they expect to receive more if Portsmouth reach the final . |
| 2 | If you want to put more than one pattern on to a sheet , make sure that you start each separate pattern on an odd numbered row , leaving at least one blank row between the height markers of the previous pattern and the beginning of the next pattern . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to do more and feel that I can , now that I 've brought up my family . ’ |
| 4 | Although some differences appear to stem more or less directly from inequalities in wealth and power , others appear to be associated with attitudes and values which can not be related directly to such inequalities ; an example is the preference of British working-class mothers for bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding their babies . |
| 5 | Unless , that is , you are either over six foot or want to take more than one friend with you . |
| 6 | LOCAL education authorities want to spend more than £1 billion on school repairs next year , three times the amount allocated for this year , the Labour Party said yesterday . |
| 7 | The London pilot scheme is proving so successful that Ru , 34 , and Nick , 33 , expect to make more than £8,000 this year . |
| 8 | It has an added attraction in that , if you want to make more than one , they can be joined with an interlinking line and flown in a ‘ train ’ . |
| 9 | If you want to make more than one kite then now is the time to transfer panel templates from the full-size plan . |
| 10 | DAVE Buck , Chris Jones and Ian Davenport hope to raise more than £2,000 for Warrington District General Hospital 's neonatal unit by doing the famous 200-mile coast to coast walk from Robin Hood 's Bay , near Scarborough , to St Bee 's Head , near Whitehaven , Cumbria . |
| 11 | The Friends of the DMH , a laudable group of people , hope to raise more than £30,000 for the hospital during this financial year . |
| 12 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |
| 13 | The modern science of militarism renders wars between ‘ civilised ’ Powers too costly , and the rapid growth of effective internationalism in the financial and great industrial magnates [ sic ] , who seem destined more and more to control national politics , may in future render such wars impossible . |
| 14 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 15 | We therefore stand to learn more if we trouble to analyse our successes . |
| 16 | Some minerals seem to survive more or less unaltered even after being subject to prolonged weathering , whereas others decompose very rapidly . |
| 17 | Well you seem to have more or less damned the er Prime Ministers ' vision of a classless society ! |
| 18 | But in a large group where all actors stand to gain more or less equally from the group 's success , it can be very hard indeed to organize any collective action . |
| 19 | This states that when two elements A and B combine to form more than one compound , the weights of A which combine with a fixed weight of B are in the proportion of small whole numbers . |
| 20 | Extroverted noisy people get selected more than the others , and this game can produce a great deal of fun as people struggle to eliminate all possible clues . |
| 21 | The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 . |
| 22 | Some writers have suggested that men get paid more than women because women can neither work the hours necessary to earn the higher rates , nor do they possess the skills to get the better jobs because of the time and effort they expend on the care of home and children . |
| 23 | In practice , published financial reports tend to adopt more than one of these views simultaneously . |
| 24 | The meso- and metathorax become more or less intimately associated to form a pterothorax and the union is often so close that the limits of those regions can only be ascertained with difficulty . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 26 | and we have done other things that you see up there already and we aim to do more and get into specialist magazines like the Young Telegraph . |
| 27 | Shall 1 take the boss 's job and risk spending more and more time in the office ? |
| 28 | Generally the people with the heaviest credit commitments do have more than one credit agreement ( not necessarily with the same firm ) going at the same time . |
| 29 | I mean you do get more than forty pee to do a parcel . |
| 30 | Contexts which do activate more than one sense at a time give rise to the variety of oddness we have labelled zeugma : |