Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To cut out obscene talk and scenes and so convey more grace . |
| 8 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 9 | Harvard dealers know more than their counterparts at newer bucket shops , and so have more choice of career direction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Place the bulbs on a layer of fibre , then work in and gently firm more fibre around them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Groups have multiple goals , are more enduring than a coalition and usually involve more members . |
| 23 | I will make new friends at university and hopefully have more experience in the knowledge of what friends really are . |
| 24 | Malaysia went further by buying the parent company of many local mines , The London Tin Company , and later bought more mines from Charter Consolidated to emerge as a major producer in its own right , selling to world markets through the London Metal Exchange . |
| 25 | After the Nov. 12 march talks took place between student leaders , Mitterrand and Education Minister Lionel Jospin , and the government on Nov. 14 announced plans to allocate a further F4,500 million francs to improve conditions in schools , and also to employ more teachers and to improve security . |
| 26 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 27 | Problems which are ignored are generally made worse with time , and consequently take much longer to deal with effectively , and also require more confidence and expertise on the part of the counsellor . |
| 28 | ‘ Charlotte Graham-Watson was almost born on skis in Verbier and probably has more experience of skiing there than anyone else ! ’ |
| 29 | Warm-blooded animals have the same body temperatures at all times , and can be more continuously active , but they use far more energy — and hence need more food — than cold-blooded animals of the same size . |
| 30 | In multicellular organisms that reproduce asexually through a single-cell stage , the effects of Muller 's ratchet will be exacerbated , both because population sizes tend to be smaller than for protozoans , and because genomes tend to be large and hence to accumulate more mutations per genome . |