Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] more [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | But now I 'll meet more people , I 'll begin to feel at home . |
2 | I have a secure office where you can stay and , besides , I 'll have more staff resources available to me . ’ |
3 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
4 | You 'd think with my connections at the National Gallery , Washington , and the Virginia Museum and Yale that I would know more people in the field , but I just do n't . |
5 | Mr Thaw said : ‘ Obviously I would like more people to watch it , but I do n't give a damn what the press say about it . ’ |
6 | Mr Thaw said : ‘ Obviously I would like more people to watch it , but I do n't give a damn what the press say about it . ’ |
7 | She went along because she did n't like to say no , but also she thought she might meet more people and get involved with the community : ‘ I really enjoyed it , we had a sponsored walk along the canal towpath and pub socials to raise money for the event , plus lots of committee meetings . |
8 | When this practice was questioned , the auxiliary protested that all the patients had their own bowls so she knew what they had eaten but that using one spoon was quicker , as she could feed more people at once . |
9 | Then you could buy more sheep and improve your farm . ’ |
10 | Africa proved to be a paradise where Mr Sandy could pursue his favourite hobby of birdwatching : ‘ It was a most enjoyable tour from the birdwatching point of view because you can see more species in one day in Africa than you can in a year in Scotland . ’ |
11 | I think we should encourage more people of mature years , may I suggest that , to join the school in a learning capacity and join it during the day if we can . |
12 | We must have more people involved or it can not run . |
13 | I hope the transition will go well but we 'll have more people and a lot more younger soldiers and that will bring certain difficulties |
14 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |
15 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
16 | We will make more people eligible for our successful Job Interview Guarantee Scheme , which links unemployed people with local jobs . |
17 | We can hire more people and create jobs . |
18 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
19 | He says that they must have more staff and investment in the system . |
20 | Peattie and some others were converted to the view that they should build more 120MW sets in 1952 , but Shakeshaft and Pask remained attached to a conservative mix of 30MW and 60MW units , with only a cautious experimentation with larger sets . |
21 | SKY 'S screening of Premier League soccer may prove an expensive flop unless they can persuade more people to buy dishes . |
22 | It may accommodate more people . |
23 | It might bring more people into the area . |
24 | It could support more people , |
25 | Jeremy Gibbs said he would blast more deer if they continued to eat his crops . |
26 | In fact , he would like more people to enjoy his level of popularity : ‘ If this is a cult of personality , then I should like all the poorly developed countries to enjoy such personalities capable of ensuring a rising standard of living for the people . ’ |
27 | It would force more people onto the roads . |
28 | If you are short of space , try using a round table as it will seat more people than a square or rectangular table of the same surface area . |
29 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
30 | Might the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) want more money for Derbyshire so that it can employ more people such as his brother , who is employed as a personnel liaison officer for Toyota , his sister-in-law , who is employed in the county publicity department — — and such as another sister-in-law , who is employed in the education department ? |