Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any given moment , he could present a convincing case for the client to sell British Telecom shares , reinvesting the proceeds , or to hang onto them and sit tight , or else to double up , or even to buy more shares in a distinctly dubious OTC stock , while hanging onto British Telecom . |
| 2 | It encourages the conditions for crime in communities that already feel more impact from crime because they contain more victims of crime , as well as more offenders . |
| 3 | One subject that possibly deserves more coverage — and makes Mazur 's achievements all the more remarkable — is the extent of the inter-agency rivalry that dogged the investigation and was the subject of a Senate Banking Committee report published last October . |
| 4 | This is a relationship that always carries more seeds of hope in it than many others that break down ( or never get started on the right foot ) . |
| 5 | I would say that on reception is the one that probably needs more support let her down all the rest of it . |
| 6 | When benefits in kind are considered , the balance of the redistribution is in fact significantly in favour of the most prosperous households that typically enjoy more take-up of education through children staying on at school and more benefits with regard to health care . |
| 7 | Attributes for it er firmly rooted in a Celtic past that frankly bears more relation to Wales and Scotland than it does er to the past er in Devon . |
| 8 | At best they re-describe perception in a manner that actually generates more problems than it solves . |
| 9 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 10 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 11 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 13 | It may be , firstly , that the increased output of manufacturing is yielding marked increases in what industrial workers ( though fewer in number ) spend in the service sector , and so supporting more jobs there . |
| 14 | To cut out obscene talk and scenes and so convey more grace . |
| 15 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 16 | Harvard dealers know more than their counterparts at newer bucket shops , and so have more choice of career direction . |
| 17 | The market mechanism fails to provide a means whereby workers can signal to firms that they would demand more goods and services if only they could get jobs and so have more money to spend . |
| 18 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 19 | In spite of everything , being with Kirsty was fun , and , besides , she wanted to keep an eye on Janice , and perhaps gather more proof regarding her own ‘ intuition ’ . |
| 20 | However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past . |
| 21 | Place the bulbs on a layer of fibre , then work in and gently firm more fibre around them . |
| 22 | However , most practitioners consider that this risk is commercially necessary in order to be able to undertake the work , and generally speaking more work than predicted on one job is balanced out by less work than predicted on another . |
| 23 | In the Conservative manifesto 's section on Women and Opportunity there are cringing pledges to implement the EC Directive on ‘ pregnant workers ’ , expand childcare facilities , maintain child benefit and generally encourage more women to work . |
| 24 | Hydroelectric power will continue to make a substantial contribution , but any further development will serve primarily to store energy , and not to produce more electricity . |
| 25 | For example , if there is an upsurge in consumer demand for credit , banks may be very keen to grant additional loans and thus make more profits , even though they have acquired no additional liquid assets . |
| 26 | And so , it some ways , it is : ‘ In any communication situation , the individual who can monopolize the communication is likely to have more power , and thus exert more influence . ’ |
| 27 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 28 | But the initial effect of economic reforms there could very well be , as in the USSR , to worsen economic conditions , and thus to make more people want to leave . |
| 29 | Prudent pruning produces a low yield and , therefore , a better quality wine because each bunch of grapes receives more nutrients from the soil and thus develops more flavour and structure . |
| 30 | Groups have multiple goals , are more enduring than a coalition and usually involve more members . |