Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to more " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has jumped to more than $140 billion , from $125 billion in late November . |
| 2 | Since 1979 , under the present Government , that figure has trebled to more than 6.5 per cent . |
| 3 | The cost of the project has soared to more than £8bn . |
| 4 | For that Macaulay reportedly earned £62,000 but his fee has soared to more than £2 million , making him the highest paid child star of all time . |
| 5 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 6 | The public-sector deficit has swollen to more than 10% of GDP . |
| 7 | In a bid to make-up the missing funds Ian has written to more than 350 companies throughout County Durham . |
| 8 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 9 | So far Sandra , 27 , who has nine O-levels , has applied to more than 500 firms in Barnsley . |
| 10 | HOUSE PRICES are still tumbling and the Government has slipped to more than £11 billion in the RED . |
| 11 | BENEATH the hype , Mickey Mouse , the Magic Kingdom and the publicity that has led to more than 100,000 people already enquiring about Eurodisney shares in the UK alone , there remains a disconcerting truth about this international share offer . |
| 12 | The increased speed of the modern game and the athleticism of the participants has led to more crowded play so that linesmen are apt to flag when a forward suddenly breaks clear to receive a pass . |
| 13 | POLICE chiefs are worried that the brutal murder of Paul Sheldon has led to more young people going into Edinburgh city centre armed with knives . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I hope to talk to more senior players who are available on free transfers . |
| 15 | Either way , the part PI is seen to point to more than one superior which , with others , will lead to a " many-to-many " set of links . |
| 16 | While Camping Gaz fuel is widely available and UK users should have no difficulty in finding a supply , if you intend heading to more remote parts , even of Europe , it 's another story . |
| 17 | For example , to enable inhouse teams to win catering and cleaning contracts in local authorities and the health service , labour has had to submit to more rigid disciplines and hierarchical control , not less . |
| 18 | It is possible to attend to moderately stressful cues and mentally explore and master their threat before proceeding to attend to more salient stimuli . |
| 19 | Even in Blaisdon , fruit growers are beginning to look to more reliable crops . |
| 20 | For instance , mothers often experience downward economic mobility as income from the father drops , sometimes requiring moving to more modest housing , which in turn may involve loss of friends , neighbours and a familiar educational system . |
| 21 | The additional organising effort , however , brought in extra resources of no more than £pound394 , and could hardly have amounted to more than 450 paying members , suggesting a total membership of less than 5,200 . |
| 22 | PRESCRIPTION charges are set to soar to more than £4 as Chancellor Norman Lamont fails to heal Britain 's sick economy . |
| 23 | Or do we have to look to more concrete and historically specific forms of mediation to explain the racialization of envy and desire ? |
| 24 | All schools identified a change in their methods of identifying needs prior to spending leading to more effective use of available resources . |
| 25 | The source of supply in the sea might perhaps shown signs of exhaustion , and the fishermen might have to resort to more distant coasts and to deeper waters , Nature giving a diminishing return to the increased application of capital and labour of a given order of efficiency . |
| 26 | By 2025 the population of India will have doubled to more than 1.4 billion and almost caught up with China . |
| 27 | Though technological change does tend to lead to more capital intensive than labour intensive development , there can be substantial employment created indirectly through backward and forward linkages . |
| 28 | In fact , other writers within the corporatist tradition seek to go beyond this emphasis upon the structure of interests in order to suggest that this new pattern of interest-group politics has itself served to contribute to more extensive state intervention in economy and society . |
| 29 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 30 | In other words ‘ primitive ’ peoples do not simply construct words and meanings in relation to the felt needs of everyday life but classify according to more general intellectual interests and concerns . |