Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | From adolescence on , peer groups exert more influence on attitude formation . |
| 2 | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor ( cmos ) circuits save power , allowing designers to put more circuits on a chip . |
| 3 | There is , however , a tendency for the public and the government to get used to industrial action and to adapt to it , so inducing groups to become more and more militant in order to sustain the same level of impact . |
| 4 | Yet in spite of the drive to encourage employers to recruit more people with physical or mental difficulties — or retain them in the wake of ill-health — too many are still backing off from taking on such staff , according to the Department of Employment . |
| 5 | To accept change took more courage than I possessed . |
| 6 | One of Britain 's most senior judges has attacked plans to send more people to jail . |
| 7 | In spite of the attempt to introduce earlier maturity by means of the Shorthorn , the Charolais remains a late-maturing breed with the advantage that the animal is heavier before it begins to deposit fat , nor does it need hormones to put more meat on its hindquarters . |
| 8 | BT also unveiled schemes to encourage customers to make more use of their phones and promised more special offers . |
| 9 | Academic says we need to encourage people to use more facilities rather than simply looking round the University . |
| 10 | Meanwhile France and Belgium are trying to encourage people to have more children in an effort to revitalise their flagging economies . |
| 11 | He also established La Festa dell'Uva , the Fête of the Grapes , to encourage people to eat more of them . |
| 12 | 1982 's release ‘ The Slide Area ’ found Cooder writing more of his own material , and covering much the same territory . |
| 13 | She wants women to pay more attention to their achievement needs , and ends with a celebration of throwing off feminine values , and taking on some masculine ones : giving up ‘ guilt and shame and the tireless self-discipline of women ’ for ‘ magnanimity and generosity and courage ’ ( 1971 : 330 ) . |
| 14 | In theory the government wants women to have more children , but in practice they discourage it because our living conditions are so terrible . |
| 15 | He let Slovakia go more or less its own way under the puppet regime of Father Tiso . |
| 16 | Fox hunting and pub skittling competitions arouse more controversy than politics . |
| 17 | ‘ The idea of my book was to encourage students to become more and more interested in music and composing by giving them first-hand experience of keyboards ’ he said . |
| 18 | That is what the Labour party means when it says it wants councils to raise more of the money that they spend . |
| 19 | This demonstration moved Balfour to urge more contributions to Queen Alexandra 's funds for the unemployed . |
| 20 | The observation that 112 ( 62 per cent ) patients who reported pain experienced more pain at night suggests that a considerable number may have an ischaemic element associated with their ulcers . |
| 21 | Its only proposal for health is to undo reforms which make administrators pay more attention to patients . |
| 22 | Mr Hall says Timex produces more goods now than before the strike , and he has received ‘ a fair number ’ of job applications from workers sacked at the beginning of the dispute , who could find no other job in recession-hit Dundee . |
| 23 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 24 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 25 | The rhetoric of most Third World governments and radical researchers on the damage done by FDI in general and specific TNCs in particular , seems at odds with the almost universal scramble of these same Third World governments advised by ( in some cases ) the same radical researchers to create policies to attract more and more FDI into their countries . |
| 26 | ‘ You could n't grow up believing animals mattered more than human beings , could you ? |
| 27 | Scrambling nets need more awareness and control of body weight than fixed frames . |
| 28 | Releasing special deposits allows banks to create more credit . |
| 29 | So you 'll be urging governments to do more ? |
| 30 | If private certification firms are in business to earn profits , which they do by charging firms for a certificate attesting the quality or safety of a product , which then allows firms to sell more of the product at any given price , will not firms have an incentive to bribe the certifier to obtain the certificate ? |