Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After more exposure in the West End , he spent three years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , playing 12 large Shakespeare roles with distinction . |
| 2 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 3 | FOOTBALL : Barnet players are seeking a meeting with chairman Stan Flashman after more speculation over the future of manager Barry Fry . |
| 4 | This time , after more threats , he followed his ultimatum with action . |
| 5 | After more adventures , the story ends up at another of Tom 's aunts , with Jim ( the nigger ) recaptured , Finn mistaken for Tom , and Tom turning up pretending to be his own brother ! |
| 6 | If , however , you 're after more sophistication in both sound and facilities , and if you occasionally like to wander on the wild side , then the ME-10 is the way to go . |
| 7 | She it was who took the reading , writing , and arithmetic , but , of course , not until after more prayers . |
| 8 | Finally after more tests , a nurse , not a doctor , asked if I had used tampons . |
| 9 | He 's got to be caught.The hunt is stepped up after more attacks on horses . |
| 10 | A fisheries protection vessel has been sent out after more clashes between French and British trawlers off the Scilly Isles . |
| 11 | By the end of the day , after more lessons , a cold shower , a cold dinner and two hours of homework , Endill felt exhausted . |
| 12 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 13 | After more days and nights than he cared to remember , he was perched on a ledge , perhaps halfway up , unable to move up or down . |
| 14 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 15 | English soccer fans have been charged after more violence at the European Championships . |
| 16 | After more enquiries , a devout soccer fan gave me a selection to read . |
| 17 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 18 | He should just remember that there was a God , and feel that there was , ‘ not dead and stifled but alive ’ , urging us towards more love , more life . |
| 19 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 20 | The 1962 Hospital Plan aimed at a reduction in hospital beds for the mentally ill of roughly one half the total , together with a move towards more provision within general hospitals . |
| 21 | Recommendations were that the New University of Ulster move towards more emphasis on mature students , distance learning and non-degree work ; that Ulster Polytechnic increase emphasis on vocational studies ; and that Queen 's University Belfast continue largely as before , though with more emphasis on broadly based and part-time courses , and , where possible , three-year degree courses ( instead of four year ) . |
| 22 | ( I detect a subtle shift towards more emphasis on individual 's ‘ choice ’ , including choice to leave . ) |
| 23 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 24 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
| 25 | The health service members ( principally community mental handicap nurses and therapists ) were almost an exact mirror image — they concentrated on a casework approach — although there is some slight hint in Table 3 of a shift towards more service development activities over time . |
| 26 | Much of the explanation for this lies in two interrelated trends : towards more white-collar jobs and towards more service jobs , both traditionally weakly organized . |
| 27 | By the beginning of the 1980s , there was a trend towards more centralization , and away from the sometimes rather anarchic experiments in local school democracy of the 1970s . |
| 28 | This pressure for higher dividends will , if it is sustained , push firms towards more borrowing ( to pay the dividend ) and less dependence on equities . |
| 29 | We 're moving towards more ozone treatment for water . |
| 30 | Things have begun to swing towards more enforcement after a period in which , as you note , the Sherman and Clayton acts were forgotten and the authorities charged with enforcing them were starved of resources . |