Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BT fell 11p to 335p on news that it may face more competition in the future . |
| 2 | The process can be speeded up somewhat by changing the blotting paper several times while the flowers are being pressed , although you must be extremely careful as the plants will be exceptionally fragile at this point and it may do more harm than good to disturb them . |
| 3 | When the participants fail to address the agenda referred to above , it may do more harm than good . |
| 4 | It may accommodate more people . |
| 5 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 6 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 7 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 8 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 9 | Although it is lower in fibre it may provide more calcium in the body . |
| 10 | If shape information were available accurately from the pattern recogniser it should enable more candidate words to be discarded due to incorrect shape . |
| 11 | Surely it should have more potential than the Booker : the romantic novel has a wider mass readership , and there are few prizes for this end of the market . |
| 12 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 13 | He 's created the media thing , rightly or wrongly , but it must put more pressure on him . |
| 14 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 15 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 16 | It might bring more people into the area . |
| 17 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
| 18 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
| 19 | It 'll mean more Day Care , more Home Care , more Occupational Therapy , for people in an area of the county who get far less levels of service than elsewhere in the county . |
| 20 | ’ It 'll do more harm than good . ’ |
| 21 | It 'll do more good at home ca n't you ? |
| 22 | It 'll have more coughs and splutters and er traffic and everything on this side . |
| 23 | It 'll take more time than buying an off-the-shelf solution , it wo n't be so neatly packaged , and there are a few ‘ gotchas ’ for the unwary . |
| 24 | A plea to downgrade Darlington so it could attract more Government aid is to go ahead despite an earlier warning that it could backfire . |
| 25 | To so it could accommodate more coal , erm and not have to return to base so frequently . |
| 26 | But as Mark Smith reports some believe it could do more harm than good . |
| 27 | However attractive the idea of a director general sounds , it could create more problems than it would solve |
| 28 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 29 | It could support more people , |
| 30 | It would prevent more tragedies like Michael Watson 's and bring back the skill to the game . |