Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ferdinando left the Brownings service and came in with her , adopting his rightful position , then she could manage even better and take more boarders and they would be self-supporting besides living together always . |
| 2 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 3 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 4 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 5 | A simple propagator will help you raise seedlings more easily and achieve more success with cuttings . |
| 6 | Jack was on call anyway and had more reason to be there than her , but if anything that was an added incentive to stay . |
| 7 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 8 | At dawn yesterday , Group Four piled on the pressure , catching the tides right and putting more distance between herself and the rest of the fleet as she approached Southampton . |
| 9 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |
| 10 | It can go further and carry more people than the opposition which is normally limited to around 100 kts and five seats . |
| 11 | Also the arms , and in particular the front one , should be straight since not only is this less tiring but it keeps the rig upright and provides more power . |
| 12 | ‘ Go home and have more babies . ’ |
| 13 | Attempts to make locomotives work harder and to get more miles per shift out of drivers proved frustrating . |
| 14 | And because dense bones tend to sink , black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat . |
| 15 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 16 | Older people need to be in hospital longer , to consult general practitioners more often and take more drugs , and to have more home-based chiropody and nursing services and more personal social services than younger people ( Social Trends 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 18 | Eliza wrote to Mrs Mitchell on 30 May , ‘ We are , baby and I , still going on well and getting more strength every day . |
| 19 | We felt that our arguments ‘ hold up ’ extremely well and deserved more recognition in the outcome since they answered at least two of the board 's main arguments against the reduction of differentials . |
| 20 | ‘ They were a lot richer than most people round here and had more status . |
| 21 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 22 | By arranging to protect and feed the young of shellfish , for example , the commercial breeder can cut the normally high mortality rate quite dramatically and raise more juveniles to become adults than could ever occur in nature . |
| 23 | Anya leans forward and adds more coal to the fire . |
| 24 | And if that gentleman wants to go off and have and and marry again and raise more children he should still not leave his |
| 25 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 26 | This is largely because farmers on better land can stock it more heavily and attract more HLCAs , generating more capital to finance grant-aided agricultural improvements . |
| 27 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 28 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |
| 29 | Make cycling safer and create more cycle paths . |