Example sentences of "would [verb] more [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to books , distribution of multimedia software titles would remain more fragmented because the market was growing rapidly and potential customers could be reached through many outlets , Mr McCarthy said . |
| 2 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 3 | Suitably robed — the designer had already shown him drawings of an onion-shaped headpiece and a collar of gold — she would look more sphinx-like than most , certainly more exotic than Babs Osborne whose voice was pitched a little too high and whose features were a little too Frinton-on-Sea to suggest the perfect Cleopatra . |
| 4 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 5 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 6 | Even without pressure through exports , it would become more expensive because sheep quotas ( a new EC budget control mechanism ) have capped European production at the same time as demand has soared . |
| 7 | It is this which caused the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , to claim that under Labour the unions would become more privileged than when Michael Foot was Labour 's Employment Secretary from 1974 to 1976 . |
| 8 | The likelihood was that Japanese resistance would become more ferocious as the battles approached the home islands with heavy casualties being incurred if Japan was invaded . |
| 9 | Experts declared that the main cause of the pollution was nitrogen dioxide ( unlike the smogs in London during the 1950s , which were mainly caused by sulphur dioxide ) and warned that this form of pollution would become more prevalent as road traffic increases . |
| 10 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 11 | But Jose-Maria Mendiluce , a senior UN High Commissioner for Refugees official who met Mr Milosevic , was sceptical those assurances would prove more effective than previous promises often broken by Serb forces , a UNHCR spokeswoman , Alemka Lisinski , said . |
| 12 | Hill also concluded that heavier animals would require more energy' than small ones , kilo for kilo , to move . |
| 13 | At the end of September the group split up ; determined to get away from things English , they now decided to explore different areas , thinking they would learn more German if they gave up each others ' company . |
| 14 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |