Example sentences of "[noun sg] to get more [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have undertaken missions with the hon. Members for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) , for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) and for South Down ( Mr. McGrady ) in an attempt to get more business and development in their areas . |
2 | Well , equally you could n't have an A T C Squadron in every small town or village in the country , and therefore they 've got to be , I mean , just as much as Otter Valley Boxing Club has extended its range to get more people , so the A T C have to be in some particular place . |
3 | ( Pete goes to the bar to get more drinks . |
4 | He was called in to give a boost to the campaign to get more pupils to have lunch at school … and as Mike Rowbottom found out , he seems to have enjoyed it . |
5 | Sir Montague Levine , the coroner , said he took a very poor view of their attitude and would seek Foreign Office help to get more information . |
6 | This has enabled management to get more effort out of labour and pay a lower wage . |
7 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
8 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
9 | As will be seen later , it was used by management and unions in 1981 to make a joint approach to the Secretary of State for Transport to get more government support for the railways . |
10 | But if you do find an area where you could save a key person several hours a day , then that is real money saved where he could be using his special expertise in his business to get more business , and then one would have to look more closely at erm the particular application , particular jobs that he 's doing and that could be put on the computer . |
11 | The move to get more defendants declared sane came as two suspected IRA gun-runners tried to convince an American court that they are insane . |
12 | The message of Opportunity 2000 — the business-led initiative to get more women into top management by the year 2000 is not filtering down to many line managers , according to the campaign 's first year report . |
13 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
14 | The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year . |
15 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
16 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |
17 | She is backing a drive to get more women top jobs . |
18 | We were afraid , but we often had to go on shore to get more water . |
19 | It sometimes proves worth while to tack towards one side of a course to get more wind . |
20 | If you 're in a bigger practice that means you 've got probably er more opportunity to get more business then that 's the sort of money . |
21 | A further complication in drug addiction is that powdered drugs are commonly " cut " ( diluted ) with other substances such as washing powder or brick dust in order to get more money for an apparent increased quantity . |
22 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
23 | Until MS-DOS 6.0 arrives on the scene sometime near March 1993 and we see what disk compression it offers , Xtradrive seems to provide probably the simplest way to get more capacity from your hard disk . |
24 | Huy saw that to play along was the only way to get more information , and Surere had mentioned the protection of innocence as the mainstay of his creed often enough now for the scribe to make connections , though they were as yet half-formed , and his heart was inclined , at their birth , to reject them as falling too pat . |
25 | That being so , the only way to get more computing power to attack any given problem — and the sort of problems I 'm interested in are very complex problems — the only way to get enough computing power to tackle these may be to make a number of computers work together in co-operation ; what we call multiprocessor systems or , since we 're interested in microprocessors , small computers , we talk about multimicroprocessor systems . |
26 | Given the difference in the spread of support between the parties , it is possible for one party to get more votes than its opponent party but receive fewer seats . |
27 | Curly Top had n't had enough time to get more people to the gatehouse . |
28 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
29 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
30 | ‘ I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’ |