Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to make locomotives work harder and to get more miles per shift out of drivers proved frustrating . |
| 2 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 3 | This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts . |
| 4 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 5 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |