Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] more [noun sg] " 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 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 5 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 6 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 7 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 8 | Although it is lower in fibre it may provide more calcium in the body . |
| 9 | If shape information were available accurately from the pattern recogniser it should enable more candidate words to be discarded due to incorrect shape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's created the media thing , rightly or wrongly , but it must put more pressure on him . |
| 12 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 13 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ’ It 'll do more harm than good . ’ |
| 18 | It 'll do more good at home ca n't you ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A plea to downgrade Darlington so it could attract more Government aid is to go ahead despite an earlier warning that it could backfire . |
| 21 | To so it could accommodate more coal , erm and not have to return to base so frequently . |
| 22 | But as Mark Smith reports some believe it could do more harm than good . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If there were an art fair in Gambia it would bring more business than London . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 26 | If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus . |
| 27 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |
| 28 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 29 | It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry . |
| 30 | It would make more sense economically to bring them home , and would not create any military threat . |