Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] more " 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 | It may accommodate more people . |
| 5 | It 's paradoxical because often divorce law reforms thought of as favouring women and in circumspect that allows women to get away from an unreasonable husband and that kind of thing , it 's certainly true , but at the same time you have to notice that in terms of reproductive success it may benefit more er men more . |
| 6 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 7 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 8 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 9 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 10 | Where Whisky Galore ( 1948 , Tight Little Island in US ) depicts a Scottish community determined to outwit officialdom and salvage the whisky from a shipwrecked boat , The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ) treads into that tricky area for British filmmakers , industrial relations , to suggest that when workers and management come together , it may have more to do with their own selfish interests than those of the broader community . |
| 11 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 13 | Although it is lower in fibre it may provide more calcium in the body . |
| 14 | If shape information were available accurately from the pattern recogniser it should enable more candidate words to be discarded due to incorrect shape . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the quality of the counselling relationship is good it should prove more than enough to handle the outcome , and if it then assists the individual towards a resolution of emotional troubles , the short-term distress has been worthwhile . |
| 17 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 18 | It must have more than compensated for being shot down , or blown to bits . |
| 19 | He 's created the media thing , rightly or wrongly , but it must put more pressure on him . |
| 20 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 21 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 22 | It might bring more people into the area . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 'll mean more million pound jackpot winners . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Why do you want it to glow , it 'll show more if it glowed . |
| 28 | ’ It 'll do more harm than good . ’ |
| 29 | It 'll do more good at home ca n't you ? |
| 30 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |