Example sentences of "more [adv] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 2 | An attempt was made in the 1920s and 1930s to pursue Japanese aims more skilfully and to enlist the cooperation of the Korean people . |
| 3 | But we would all do well to learn to eat more slowly and to savour the taste of what we are eating . |
| 4 | In the long-term , ANWIC aims to help empower women to communicate more effectively and to obtain a better representation in the media hierarchy . |
| 5 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 6 | It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable . |
| 7 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 8 | Inevitably in such circumstances , the detail of practice suffers a reduction to enable these charged and emotional situations to be handled more easily and to allow the complexities of social events to be reduced to the simplicities of narrative necessary for the file of evidence . |
| 9 | The aim of the training is to help the individual to think more adaptively and to develop and improve their performance in any particular task . |
| 10 | In addition the government intended to strengthen and toughen measures to deal with new immigration by trebling the annual budget of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides ( OFPRA ) and of the appeals commission , in order to process requests for asylum much more quickly and to deal effectively with those rejected . |
| 11 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 12 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 13 | Finally , the map representing ‘ Italy in the sixteenth century ’ should be made to show the boundaries between states more clearly and to narrow its time-frame to a period when they remained exactly the same . |
| 14 | What I hope to gain on the course is to be able to speak more confidently and to get over the nerves . |
| 15 | I would tell any future House of Commons to study legislation more carefully and to legislate less . |
| 16 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 17 | A choreographer 's wish to exploit a particularly gifted dancer usually leads that dancer to develop more fully and to have more to give when cast in ballets by more objective choreographers . |
| 18 | Uncontrollable items , such as inflation , are best treated separately from controllable costs so that cause and effect can be related more readily and to avoid unnecessary worrying about items over which the budget-holder has no influence . |
| 19 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 20 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 21 | In 1976 Brewer and Hills stated that ‘ It is time for librarians to take evaluation more seriously and to think more professionally about their teaching commitment ’ . |