Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 2 | Although a number of deaf people , especially in London , Coventry and Southampton lost their homes , deaf institutes , churches and schools seem to have received more damage . |
| 3 | Over the years , I seem to have had more ‘ associations ’ with God — and I have the greatest difficulty in saying or writing the word — than there are vineyards in the Medoc . |
| 4 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 5 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 6 | At the next election we need to have persuaded more people to measure their votes against principle rather than tax tables . |