Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 3 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 4 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 5 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 6 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 7 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 8 | The climate is crucial , because a reactor compartment exposed to dry air will rust more slowly than one buried in soil or sunk at sea . |
| 9 | If anything we will specialise more rather than become more generalised . |
| 10 | Like her , the General had prayed and hoped for the violet 's return , and now it had come and it would surely blossom more gloriously than ever before . |
| 11 | It is clear that science will advance more efficiently if theories are so structured as to contain within them fairly clear clues and prescriptions as to how they should be developed and extended . |
| 12 | To help pupils study more effectively and encourage self discipline . |
| 13 | With SABRE we can monitor more clearly and precisely and there 's less room for error . |
| 14 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 15 | The Government is the most credit-worthy ( ! ) body in the country and so can borrow more cheaply than any other institution . |
| 16 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 17 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 18 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 19 | In the 1990s the number of people of working age will either fall or grow more slowly than over the past two decades in all the big industrial economies , which should help to reduce dole queues . |
| 20 | Resources : The Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . |
| 21 | When Japanese demand picks up again , imports will grow more quickly than in past recoveries . |
| 22 | In places the trees do grow more thickly and pines occur in some hilly areas . |
| 23 | And if the food is at 10°C , Listeria will grow more rapidly than any other organism |
| 24 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 25 | You 'll think more clearly after you 've had a break . ’ |
| 26 | You 'd think more so than a big Tesco 's because you would n't think lots of people |
| 27 | Perhaps then you 'll think more seriously before you play with someone 's emotions in such a heartless way . |
| 28 | Brain-storming is simply one of a number of " thinking techniques ' developed and popularized over recent decades to help us think more efficiently and creatively . |
| 29 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 30 | The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people . |