Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 3 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 4 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 5 | The results of production should increase more quickly than expenditure upon it . |
| 6 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 7 | You 'll think more clearly after you 've had a break . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps then you 'll think more seriously before you play with someone 's emotions in such a heartless way . |
| 9 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 10 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 11 | There 's some fluid in your lungs and you 'll breathe more easily if you 're propped up . ’ |
| 12 | My neighbour 's utterances may follow more coherently if we construe them thus : |
| 13 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 14 | You 'd think more so than a big Tesco 's because you would n't think lots of people |
| 15 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 16 | In Normandy , the settlers could sleep more soundly as the theatre of active war moved south . |
| 17 | With the extra cash , the development of new products , particularly COMPARM , could proceed more quickly and in July 1980 we sold a total of eight COMPARMs to British Leyland , Ford , and General Motors . |
| 18 | Because if the British Courts are forced to order a re-trial , which they 'll be reluctant to do , 'though they may have to , then that could happen more quickly and that would of course overthrow the verdict and everything . |
| 19 | The sheets got changed once a week , but you could change more often if you got blood on them or something . |
| 20 | Particular parts may move more slowly than others . |
| 21 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 22 | Since these females may breed more effectively when older the system is not necessarily disadvantageous to them ( Elliot 1975 ) . |
| 23 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 24 | The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people . |
| 25 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 26 | Resources : The Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . |
| 27 | An obvious answer is to have this basic groundwork done by a much smaller group who would meet more regularly and for longer periods at a stretch . |
| 28 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 29 | During a hesitant phase , a speaker would pause more often and for longer periods in the long clauses , than during a fluent phase . |
| 30 | Most countries had objected that they would be forced to rely on each other 's trade statistics , that exporters would face more rather than less paperwork at national borders , and that the potential for fraud would increase . |