Example sentences of "[verb] to more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 2 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 3 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 4 | The permanent members of the Security Council , who during the cold war were excluded from some operations , are being looked to more and more . |
| 5 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 6 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 7 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 8 | Whereas businesses are moving to more and more decentralized operations , business units still need to have instantaneous access to information . |
| 9 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 10 | But while a non-linguistic preference or bias might explain why the meaning of more appears to be acquired before that of less , there still appears to be some violation of the principle of Contrast when children respond to more and less as if their meanings were identical . |
| 11 | ‘ Awards ceremonies seem to adhere to more or less the same format the world over , ’ Maria commented , betraying slight disappointment . |
| 12 | But the end of the cold war has led to more and more eastern european aircraft taking part in international displays . |
| 13 | The capacity of a few — perhaps a very few — people to inflict extinction on us , will gradually extend to more and more small groups of human beings , all of whom are liable to exhibit the self-aggrandisement and irrationality which have led to so much unnecessary suffering in the history of our species . |
| 14 | ‘ Wars in the Middle East resolve no dispute and settle no injustice — they simply sow the seeds of frustration and discontent that lead to more and more costly wars . ’ |