Example sentences of "would [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 2 | US-based banks ( in New York ) would lend more dollars externally and greater use would be made of the New York bond market . |
| 3 | Nobody would want more hay that night . |
| 4 | They would want more powers for local government , plus a Northern Ireland committee at Westminster , but the possibility of the SDLP or Dublin being diverted from the three-strand approach is remote . |
| 5 | A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee . |
| 6 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 7 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 9 | If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus . |
| 10 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 11 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |
| 12 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 13 | It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry . |
| 14 | It would make more sense economically to bring them home , and would not create any military threat . |
| 15 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 16 | ‘ That would make more sense , would it not ? |
| 17 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 18 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 19 | A single body modelled on the U S federal communications commission would make more sense . |
| 20 | It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours . |
| 21 | It would make more sense if it said Tim ran home . |
| 22 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 23 | They would make more money that way . |
| 24 | Jean owns a shop which used to sell clothes but she has now decided that given the location she would make more money running a restaurant at the same premises . |
| 25 | er you know if you think you 're not gon na get cancer you would eat more vegetables really |
| 26 | Ahead lay more normal days , during which they would experience more downs in proportion to ups and consequently discover the fickleness of supporters whose approval is conditional on success . |
| 27 | The paradox is , in short , that fishermen would catch more fish if they fished less ! |
| 28 | As George Graham indicated upon his side 's accession to the title , they would need more composure and sophistication to match Liverpool in the longer term . |
| 29 | You actually have three children under the age of seven , and if your husband died while they were still young , still in education , heaven forbid , but these things still do happen , it might be that you think that you would need more cover at that point in time , than later on , maybe when the children have left home . |
| 30 | Both wind and current were still unseasonably favourable for Makassar , but Tandri decided , probably wisely , that we would need more ballast from the beach at Likangloe . |