Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 've got to paint some more pictures though have n't you first ? |
| 2 | Members also agreed to ask Darlington Borough Council to plant some more bulbs on the village green . |
| 3 | William Empson , a lifelong and dedicated atheist , returned from the Far East in 1952 expecting to find little more demolition-work on religion needing to be done , at least among the lettered , and was horrified to discover that the devout spirit of T. S. Eliot , in his absence , had spawned a host of converts in the critical world . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to know some more details concerning Number 147 Chelsea Terrace , ’ I said . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah excellent , good , so you might be able to find some more stuff . |
| 6 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 7 | ‘ I was surprised to find much more wreckage than I expected , ’ said BNFL Sellafield apprentice Paul Rooney . |
| 8 | In a straight line , admittedly , the Limited does n't quite set your pulse on fire like an Integrale 16v ; subjectively , the Lancia 's 200bhp two-litre unit seems to provide much more firepower . |
| 9 | commented Jo , ‘ The overall standard of the children we are seeing is gradually improving although we still need to encourage many more children to play tennis ’ . |
| 10 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 11 | I advised Jeanne to take Moby to as wide a variety of different places as possible and encourage him to meet many more people and dogs . |
| 12 | The airline had opened the route on the basis that it would be the first of many , but the British Government had failed to grant any more licenses . |
| 13 | Although he had only met her briefly , he did not want to meet any more girls . |
| 14 | Transportation had been virtually abandoned in 1853 and then abolished in 1857 , although with a great show of reluctance , the government 's hand having been forced by the refusal of the Australian colonies to accept any more convicts . |
| 15 | Once Pip has found out that Magwitch is actually his benefactor he does n't want to accept any more money as he feels it is n't right . |
| 16 | A prison governor is refusing to accept any more remand prisoners because accomodation for unconvicted inmates has reached bursting point . |
| 17 | The situation has prompted the prison governor to take the unusual step of refusing to accept any more remand prisoners . |
| 18 | By imposing a very high cost of borrowing , the Chancellor hopes to reduce our willingness to accept any more bank credit and thereby limit credit creation by the banks . |
| 19 | So what 's the average b cost per box gon na be ? five X plus two Y you better write that down before our brains refuse to accept any more information . |
| 20 | These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects . |
| 21 | So my outburst had got through to the big dog — he knew I was n't going to stand any more nonsense from him . |
| 22 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 23 | ‘ Not wanting to attract any more attention than necessary in an as yet unannounced vehicle , he accelerated to gain some distance . ’ |
| 24 | WHO certainly is n't going to write any more codes for a while . |
| 25 | Did this mean that the historical sequence so far set up had to be modified to accommodate much more variety , and was the specifically European focus of the scheme in some way too parochial ? |
| 26 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 27 | Guy Sterne leaned forward to drink some more coffee , his wide mouth suddenly twisting humorously . |
| 28 | Local planning authorities would have to allocate much more land in their development plans in order to accommodate well over 2 million additional population by 1981 . |
| 29 | Second , it can be used to purchase many more shares for employees than is possible with existing share schemes . |
| 30 | Radio has therefore proved less restrictive , being able to reach many more individuals through a greater number of languages . |