Example sentences of "to more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is less efficient in producing a water supply , leading to more consumption than otherwise , but it may be a relatively efficient way of ensuring an equal chance of access to it . |
| 2 | Of course when he gets over the timidness he 'll probably get up to more mischief . |
| 3 | This vision of Orcadian self-help was much favoured by the more conservative bureaucratic direction whilst being apprehensive that the policy might discourage private home ownership and lead to more council houses being built locally . |
| 4 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 5 | Voluntary members made more than a fair ‘ consumer contribution ’ to the costs of adult education , their unpaid efforts helped to keep those costs down and they were entitled to more grant-aid from public funds . |
| 6 | I think she felt awkward , because she quickly helped me to more raspberry-fool . |
| 7 | Lady Thatcher , who has criticised the Prime Minister 's cautious stance on the war , said failure to make it clear that Serb aggression would not be allowed to succeed would lead to more bloodshed in Bosnia and possibly elsewhere . |
| 8 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 9 | Both BBC-TV and ITV , both early and main evening news , all followed the same trend : they all screened more presentation than controversy until the third week ; then they screened between two and four times as much controversy as presentation in the third week , before reverting to more presentation at the end of the campaign . |
| 10 | ‘ The district council , however , is of the view that taking this case to court could lead to more damage to the area through adverse publicity and this would be against the interests of local people . |
| 11 | Instead , once again , he has left himself open to more criticism . |
| 12 | It did seem that the mother 's intrusion in quarrels led to more conflict over the longer term . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it 's a scream , ’ Ruth stated jauntily , helping herself to more juice , ‘ our lovers out most of the night , with each other . |
| 14 | That 's right , yes , yes , that 's right , because erm , there 's a gre there 's a higher elasticity of migration inelasticity in respect to income differentials than there is to unemployment , any job creation schemes will lead to more migration , rather than , rather than less , so how , how best to get round the problem ? |
| 15 | If job creation schemes are n't in urban areas , are the best way to get round them , is n't it , if we can show , quite simply , that job creation schemes lead to more migration , which lead to more unemployment . |
| 16 | We thought liberation would lead to more freedom but many of us are too scared to go out alone in daylight let alone after dark these days . |
| 17 | One with a metal shaft and a moulded rubber handgrip will stand up to more abuse than one with a wooden shaft . |
| 18 | Fearing the arrests might cause an embarrassing international incident , they merely lectured the five Scots and allowed them to weave their way back into the night , to more drink and more disruption . |
| 19 | But yesterday Independent councillor Tony Moore , who opposed the increase , warned it could lead to more hardship . |
| 20 | User development loop : moving out to wider trials and getting the most relevant feedback leading to more revision to ensure that the teaching unit can help to educate the unfamiliar user ( this revision of the unit is aimed at helping the users to develop the ability to realize the unit 's intentions ) . |
| 21 | An alternative to more co-ordination of production is centralized production of guides of such a high quality that local production would be deemed redundant . |
| 22 | You will be inclined to more relevance in the examination . |
| 23 | As Prest and Turvey ( 1965 , p. 688 ) state : ‘ Construction of a fast motorway , which itself speeds up traffic and reduces accidents , may lead to more congestion or more accidents on feeder roads if they are left unimproved . ’ |
| 24 | The drug squads discovered more cases of drug use , which led to more police manpower and money being invested , which led to more discovery . |
| 25 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 26 | The open debate in the media had , according to the intellectual Ding Wang ( cited in Kelly 1987 : 139 ) , stimulated the students to more reflection on contemporary society . |
| 27 | But soon we progressed to more state , of-the-art experimentation . |
| 28 | I At the most obvious level interest group activity increased in the post-war period in response to more state involvement in managing the economy and in welfare provision . |
| 29 | The programmes were broadly similar in their call for a gradual transition to the market and a return to more state control . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , whatever success was achieved within these programmes it was not enough to change the general picture of an agricultural system which could only expand production by having access to more land . |