Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb infin] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 2 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 3 | This part of the book deals with possibilities , moving gradually further away from conventionalities , so that step by step the student can absorb and use more and more unusual idioms . |
| 4 | I liked working with Ted and Eva , and they let me come and go more or less as I wished . |
| 5 | In such a circumstance a quantity rule has to be adopted in order to determine what actual output will be , and the one which we adopted was that actual output would equal the level of demand , thus obliging firms to produce and sell more than they initially considered optimal at the price set . |