Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 3 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 4 | THE mercy death doctor has been given more time to consider his future . |
| 5 | Since publication , Alan has been given more information on this illustrious unit and has been kept busy updating his files . |
| 6 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 7 | He says Gloucestershire County Council has been given more money . |
| 8 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 9 | TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million . |
| 10 | Trevor Francis has been promised more cash for new players , despite Sheffield Wednesday 's £2m debt . |
| 11 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 12 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 13 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 14 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 15 | Having said that , a major recent trend has been to introduce more competition and the Post Office , for example , increasingly competes in all its operating businesses . |
| 16 | John Jones has been told more money will be available from the first of April and he can expect his knee operation in the next year . |
| 17 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 18 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 19 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 20 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 21 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 22 | A good way of traffic calming is to get more people to use public transport . |
| 23 | Er all he 's got to do is score more goals . |
| 24 | So maybe what we need to do is to pay more for the timber , and be prepared to do that . |
| 25 | It what it tends to do is to encourage more traffic to come into Knaresborough on the main road as opposed to the two secondary roads . |
| 26 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 27 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 28 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 29 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 30 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |