Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 2 | Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money . |
| 3 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 4 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 5 | Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ . |
| 6 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 7 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 8 | Who will be wanting to know more . |
| 9 | Still bubbling after his irresistible display against Turkey in midweek , Wright is looking to inflict more damage on Leeds ' porous defence , which has leaked 28 goals in 15 games — more than any Premier League side . |
| 10 | Occasionally , very occasionally , a lone knight in armour rode into Ridgery Butts from the east and plunged straight down one of the forest paths without pausing to do more than pass the time of day at the Inn and drink ale . |
| 11 | Looking to put more punch into cordless drills , Luna Tools and Machinery Ltd is introducing two new Torque Force impact drills from Ryobi , the TFI-180i and the TFI-230i . |
| 12 | Library and information science researchers keep wanting to do more research on the ‘ information needs of managers ’ in the vain hope that , eventually , they will find some managers somewhere who say that librarians and information scientists are the salt of the earth , and that their businesses would fail without them ! |
| 13 | Playboater are to pull out of retailing to allow more time for other projects . |
| 14 | The Labour consumer chief has the backing of Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs in wanting to force more competition into the market . |
| 15 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 16 | The important thing to remember is that we should all be seeking to eat more of the right kinds of food ( foods with health and nutritional properties ) rather than seeking to fit in with someone else 's ideal consumer . |
| 17 | So I think the school is in the position of wanting to think more about the problem of the brighter child , but they certainly were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 18 | So I think the school is in a position of wanting to think more about the problems of the brighter child , but they were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 19 | Willis was walking towards Dreadnought with the man from the boatyard , whose manner suggested that he was refusing to supply more tar , gas and water until the previous bill had been paid . |
| 20 | And if you 're wanting to spend more time on Johnson at any stage , this is sort of there 's something that I sort of do n't trust producing some er , you know a play to a load of boxes but erm , la la la , and sheets as well . |
| 21 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 22 | Brenda said : ‘ I think people are wanting to take more responsibility for their own health . |
| 23 | Until we can ram that message home , we are going to see more families robbed of their nearest and dearest in the most senseless of tragedies . |
| 24 | We were entering woodland and , by the twittering and warbling from oak , ash and pine , were going to see more birds . |
| 25 | That way the fi the surpluses left behind would be less , but the person transferring and we 're going to see more and more of this today er takes a fair amount of money with him . |
| 26 | There comes a point when the costs of attempting to obtain more sales through the channel outweigh the revenue and profits to be gained from those increased sales . |
| 27 | I do n't want a discussion about this because it 's going to engender more problems than it will solve . ’ |
| 28 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 29 | Now there 's a number of recommendations in the study , and that includes the introduction of a twenty mile an hour speed limit , surely that 's going to cause more problems than it solves ? |
| 30 | An elderly unstable diabetic patient admitted for surgery , for instance , is obviously going to require more hospital treatment than a younger fitter patient . |