Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] more [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Sarah said that the Carmen Curls were quick and effective to use , ‘ although I would prefer to use more than 12 rollers at a time ’ .
2 However , although it is now widely used , the term ‘ Internal Market ’ would appear to embrace more than one concept .
3 The worst thing for my son is that what he would like to do more than anything else in all the world is to be able to read like other people .
4 Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment .
5 In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it .
6 Shakespeare was only out twice , and perhaps one can understand why " Ruskin 's Selections " and " A Short History of the English People " only once and Herbert Martin 's " Selections from the Spectator " not at all , but the " Kipling Reader " would seem to deserve more than one lending .
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