Example sentences of "it was [verb] [conj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hoped that more would be done by legislation to impose on local authorities a duty to consider , assess and intervene ‘ Where there are elderly people in need of some support or advice in order to prevent or postpone personal or social deterioration or breakdown — necessitating their removal to institutional care ’ ( Age Concern , 1986 , p. 128 ) . |
| 2 | For example , in the 1985 Green Paper on the future of the universities ( altogether a somewhat hasty and ill-expressed document ) it was suggested that more money should be given to universities , and more places offered to students , for sciences than for the arts , and this policy is now being implemented , with considerable effect on the schools . |
| 3 | It was agreed that more vigorous representations would have to be made . |
| 4 | It was agreed that more use should be made of this room — perhaps a kind of ‘ den ’ , but due consideration would have to be given to the Chess Club who , at the moment , are experiencing some inconvenience from the noise created by the youth club . |
| 5 | However , it was agreed that more thought could be given to ‘ specialist groups ’ . |
| 6 | b ) It was agreed that more Sector involvement was now being seen in the Programme . |
| 7 | Their cultural as well as their economic life could be broadened : in the winter of 1922–3 it was found that more peasant children from families owning draught animals attended school regularly than those without any . |
| 8 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 9 | It was reported that more than IR£10 million has been permanently removed from the Group 's total cost base in comparison with overheads in 1991/92 . |
| 10 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |