Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose was to increase efficient dissemination by offering more personalized support to teachers . |
| 2 | We start this chapter by looking more closely at the legal distinction between these two categories of temporary worker and go on to examine whether , in many cases of agency working , it is a meaningful one in practice . |
| 3 | Sometimes companies will make up what they lose in terms of labour by charging more for the parts . |
| 4 | The Millbank paper-mill and its equipment were eventually offered for sale by auction in October 1804 , thereby ending the possibility of England challenging the European paper industry by using more easily available materials for making paper . |
| 5 | Local authorities responded to the Act by concentrating more on special needs in their governor training programmes but produced relatively little written information for general distribution . |
| 6 | Another Roadside Attraction deliberately smothers a simple plot by amassing more and more ludicrous information . |
| 7 | Equipped with this knowledge , those involved in the production , storage and dissemination of publicly available information should be better able to assist the business sector by providing more effective services . |
| 8 | In the final Cadwallader struggled to stay in touch with the top class domestic field but he exceeded all expectations by taking more than four seconds off his best time when he ran 3m 44.04s in Saturday 's heats . |
| 9 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 10 | A total of 81 conservative candidates , including Jacques Chirac and Valery Giscard d'Estaing , leaders respectively of the RPR and the UDF , have already secured their seats by winning more than 50 per cent of the vote in Sunday 's first round . |
| 11 | With the approach of war , the children responded to the danger by working more closely as a group , by exceeding their targets for filling sandbags , and by camouflaging their tents with foliage . |
| 12 | The ratio will have improved but this is no solution to the original problem which was that banks wanted to expand their business by lending more . |
| 13 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 14 | The first , linked to the fiscal crisis of the state , is the growing effort of governments to control the railways ' demands on the public exchequer by encouraging more commercial behaviour and imposing a framework of financial targets and constraints . |
| 15 | ‘ But now I want to improve my acting by tackling more demanding roles . |
| 16 | As Box and Hale ( 1982,1985,1986 ) have argued , this response is not merely a mechanical response due to the increased workload but is due to a sufficiently large proportion of judges and magistrates responding to deteriorating economic conditions by resorting more frequently to the use of imprisonment . |
| 17 | When sales revenue is a chief success indicator affecting incentive funds , the enterprise can raise the indicator by buying more expensive inputs … |
| 18 | In seven tightly reasoned chapters , the author lays out the traditional interpretation of Gris as it was advanced by Apollinaire , Kahnweiler , Maurice Raynal , Zervos and other colleagues and critics who had known the artist and followed his development , and then proceeds to question their assumptions by looking more closely at the works themselves than any other scholar had previously done . |
| 19 | The Democrat majority on the research and development subcommittee voted to cancel outright the " Brilliant Pebbles " programme — the scheme to destroy incoming ballistic missiles by orbiting more than 1,000 small missiles in space — which constituted the centrepiece of the current SDI project . |
| 20 | It has been assumed by some writers that statements of attainment should be adapted for children with learning difficulties by producing more detailed learning hierarchies than the statutory orders provide . |
| 21 | One way to regain verbal and physical communication is to show warmth by touching more often , sitting close together when watching television , and taking the trouble to look nice , not just when you are going out , but to please each other when you are at home together . |
| 22 | Tax payers react to a rise in government spending funded through the sale of bonds by saving more now to meet future tax liabilities . |
| 23 | Carolyn was made glaringly aware of her own ignorance , a looming space which grew rather than diminished , as she was able to define its area by reading more . |
| 24 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 25 | Guitar magazines devote much of their space to equipment reviews that are , nine times out of ten , merely a plug for the manufacturer , when the magazine could be putting subscribers ' money to good use by running more informative and educational articles aimed at the musician eager for knowledge and not glossy adverts ! |
| 26 | Some employers are beginning to respond to these demographic pressures by recruiting more older workers . |
| 27 | Significantly , he follows the use of conducteur by recalling more recent occasions on which he beat time . |
| 28 | The subtle effects of centuries of propaganda will not be easily overcome , but we could make a start by looking more honestly at the reality of war and stop being blinded by the glamour . |
| 29 | The brewer must now extract these sugars by adding more hot water and so transfers the mash to a mash-tun . |
| 30 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |