Example sentences of "and [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people know they should be cutting down on fat and eating more fibre . |
| 2 | We need to work hard to promote membership of the Society , increase participation and recruit more teachers ' these will be the underlying objectives although the prime one will be the enjoyment and increased knowledge of our members . |
| 3 | The Ministry for Women will have special responsibility for coordinating childcare policy , improving women 's safety and encouraging more women to participate in public life . |
| 4 | In theory , the government was pledged to promote more competition among airlines , with the aim of reducing fares and generating more services . |
| 5 | We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions . |
| 6 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 7 | A large retail chain may want to expand and build more stores or it may be content with its current size since all the most profitable regions are covered . |
| 8 | Hope had lost all interest in the project by then and Butterfield , according to Hope , by 1853 had become ‘ quite spoilt by his work on All Saints ’ , ceased to ‘ act as a gentleman ’ , and became more of an employee . |
| 9 | Tadpoles grew up and became more frogs . |
| 10 | This will bring the benefits of home ownership within the reach of more people and introduce more diversity in local authority estates . |
| 11 | The passive version can get rid of all the theys and introduce more variety in subject position : |
| 12 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 13 | It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video . |
| 14 | ‘ As it 's featured on the château label , the legend could be used to attract visitors , and sell more wine . ’ |
| 15 | The result is a townscape of ‘ terrible despairing cries ’ which mean , and mean more than , that the drunks are leaving the pubs between two and three o'clock in the morning , the pubs that reek of alcohol and cucumber and fish . |
| 16 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 17 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 18 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |
| 19 | Nature conservation is not a primary policy aim in these Parks but it tends to follow as a secondary consideration from the primary aims which are to conserve the social and cultural heritage of the Region , improve employment and make more use of the Region for recreation and education . |
| 20 | For the deaf and aphasic , they will need to employ pen and paper in addition to speech , and make more use of bodily and facial cues than might otherwise be necessary . |
| 21 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 22 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
| 23 | So even if they made a little , if they 've got the glass cutter , made a little round hole then reached , still could n't get the window open they 'd be forced to break the whole lot and make more noise . |
| 24 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 25 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 26 | There are several ways in which you can help the Society and make more of your membership . |
| 27 | Once it becomes clear that recovery is likely , it may , for instance , lead a person to re-examine their lifestyle and come to positive decisions about how they would like to improve it and make more of its good features . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rogers Communication Inc 's Toronto-based Rogers Cablesystems says it has successfully demonstrated Digital Video Compression on its cable system : the technology will give Rogers cable subscribers ‘ near video-on-demand ’ capability and offers more flexibility , it says . |
| 30 | Then Jamie coughs and offers more coffee . |