Example sentences of "[to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable . |
| 2 | The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail . |
| 3 | On the other side , revolutionary parties may come to accept more of the existing social institutions than they did in their first enthusiastic advocacy of a brave new world . |
| 4 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 5 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 6 | The government is hoping to tempt more people who are disabled or unemployed back to work by paying their benefits in an initial lump sum . |
| 7 | Output was falling , strikes were growing and the only response of the government was to impose more and more controls at home and blame foreign capital and the US in particular for the mess which it had itself created . |
| 8 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 9 | In the poor north-eastern part of Brazil infant mortality went up by 20 per cent between 1982 and 1984 , even though the Brazilian government had made a special effort to establish more health-care facilities during the same period . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it is a consortium of humanities scholars the likes of which we need anyway to establish more and better contact with . |
| 11 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 12 | If you want to know more … |
| 13 | Jay wanted to know more of this husband , wonder boy 's father , Lucy 's one-time lover . |
| 14 | If you served at RAF Valley , Mona , Bodorgan , Llandrog , Penrhos , Hell 's Mouth , Llanbedr or Tywyn , or if you would like to know more of the aviation heritage of North Wales , you might well find Roy Sloan 's researches to be of special interest . |
| 15 | But Gide 's account especially does suggest how the vision of desire as loss is strangely inseparable from both the blindness of desire and its capacity to know more than it wants . |
| 16 | If you 'd like to know more or offer help , contact group member Lynn Hughes , 3 Hill Close , Llangathen , Carmarthen , Dyfed SA32 8QE . |
| 17 | ‘ When the baby is ready , ’ Wilson said , ‘ it will find a way out and if you wish to know more you must ask your mother and father . ’ |
| 18 | She would have especially wanted to know more of her own mother , whose story is told in the final chapters and who died in 1903 of peritonitis when the author was 10 days old . |
| 19 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 20 | Do we need to know more than that ? ’ |
| 21 | WANT TO KNOW MORE ? |
| 22 | Need to know more 23% |
| 23 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 24 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 25 | Want to know more ? |
| 26 | WANT TO KNOW MORE ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 've learnt a lot off the television but I think I still need to know more and it is something I think we all worry about . ’ |
| 28 | They want to be taught earlier , preferably at 11 , and they want to know more than just how babies are made . |
| 29 | Some of the school 's achievements were then listed followed by the invitation ‘ Want to know more ? … then come along to our Annual Meeting for Parents on Tuesday 5 July . ’ |
| 30 | But Derek Jefferson wanted to know more and asked how Froggy was killed . |