Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Output was falling , strikes were growing and the only response of the government was to impose more and more controls at home and blame foreign capital and the US in particular for the mess which it had itself created . |
| 2 | Do we need to know more than that ? ’ |
| 3 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 4 | In the nineteen nineties with the tumbling costs of hardware we can adv afford to provide more and more people in our enterprise-with access to a computer or the information within in . |
| 5 | He wanted it to work more than any of us . ’ |
| 6 | Voluntary organisations need to work more and more in partnership with others . |
| 7 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 8 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 9 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 10 | In doing so , they underlined a fact which is likely to attract more and more attention as tankers continue to shift toxins from town to town , country to country : the waste chain is long . |
| 11 | Self-catering holidays in rural France continue to attract more and more converts . |
| 12 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 13 | Michael Murphy , chief executive of the Western Education Board , the largest in the province , said today : ‘ We are having to replace more and more governors , and my fear is the situation will get worse . |
| 14 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 15 | There are two known periods when fish tend to feed more than any other time in the summer months . |
| 16 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 17 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 18 | Of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner . |
| 19 | The Art Gallery of Ontario 's C$58 million expansion and renovation has created one of the largest museums in North America , but the fiscal crisis that forced the provincially sponsored Gallery to close its doors last summer , and to fire more than half its 445-person staff ( The Art Newspaper No.22 , November 1992 , p. 7 ) , will continue to reverberate long after the enlarged institution reopens 24 January . |
| 20 | At our windy centres , in addition to one long board each ( necessary for light winds and racing ) , we have enough shorter boards ( 260 to 300cm ) to put more than half our guests on the water at a time , and there are always more rigs than boards . |
| 21 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 22 | He got de temp'ry permit which clears him to work for up to six month , but I hear you makin' him your general manager which got to last more than that , is n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 24 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 25 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 26 | However , the objectivity infused into section 68 is found by their Lordships to connote more than this . |
| 27 | Any AME who has to re-equip will have to do more than that to make it worthwhile . |
| 28 | Bruce said , ‘ I can use the pendulum to do more than that . |
| 29 | Were I to agree to do more than that , it might have the effect of making it extremely difficult for either management or employees to launch a successful bid . |
| 30 | ‘ A number of people asked us if we could save the ponds and we thought we might be able to do more than that . |