Example sentences of "to [adj] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 2 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
| 3 | See if we can get in to some more adult edu education while we 're off . |
| 4 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 5 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 6 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 7 | By the end of the seventeenth century the Anglican church in England was developing institutions to serve American needs : the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge was launched in 1699 and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701 so that the established church could help its brothers in the colonies who were exposed to much more competition from other Protestants . |
| 8 | In Britain the process was subject to much more diffidence and restraint . |
| 9 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 10 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 11 | They are subject to much more competitve pressure . |
| 12 | Menem on Oct. 18 extended to three more Army officers and seven former guerrillas the pardon granted on Oct. 7 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] . |
| 13 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 14 | In a feverish rush , an agreement was finally drawn up in the corridors outside the court room , under which Virgin were entitled to one more album of Sting 's songs ( Synchronicity ) and also retained the ‘ exploitation ’ rights on existing material for a further eight to ten years . |
| 15 | Lifelong Tottenham fan Ted May , 54 , from Meldreth , Cambs , said he and many others would not be going to any more home games . |
| 16 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 17 | The prosecution abandoned plans to call Mrs Taylor as a witness after the judge , Mr Justice Latham , said families of the victims should not be exposed to any more trauma than was absolutely necessary . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't want to put you to any more trouble . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I do n't want to put Dr Simmons to any more trouble , ’ Loretta began , anxious to avoid taking the deception any further . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry about this , lady , ’ said the senior fireman as the lady 's lover was driven away to the casualty department , ‘ but at least he has n't come to any more harm this way . ’ |
| 21 | Sheila only came to two more group meetings . |