Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 1 , Protection From Eviction Act 1977 , was amended to enable more prosecutions and at the same time introduced a new criminal offence . |
| 2 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 3 | You may still want to lose more weight and inches , and your top priority may be to achieve a much slimmer body than you have so far . |
| 4 | We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases . |
| 5 | It is likely that Unit will want to acquire more engineering interests to tie in with the Surrey business . |
| 6 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 7 | A Publicity Committee was formed to attract more members and on New Year 's Eve 1946–47 what appears to be the first such Social at the Club was held and included ‘ modern dancing to a radiogram ’ . |
| 8 | A new video that 's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors . |
| 9 | Even Rory Bremner would have been hard pressed to impersonate more roles in a single show . |
| 10 | Such basic considerations , however , tend to provide more information about what was impossible than about what occurred , and their explanatory power is therefore limited . |
| 11 | None of these is intended simply to mollify reluctant staff : each is intended to provide more time , to allow a fresh look to be taken or to try out different approaches when there are setbacks . |
| 12 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 13 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 14 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 15 | We want to see more opportunities for training , more encouragement to enterprise , better education and more measures to tackle drugs and crime . |
| 16 | The regional arts associations want to see more decentralisation , but Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , said that when Mr Wilding undertook his inquiry at the start of the year he was unhappy about the accountability of some regional arts associations . |
| 17 | Having sorted out his long game he just needs to acquire more consistency around the green . |
| 18 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 19 | Lynne wants to see more workplace creches available and believes Labour offers the best policies for mums but questions how they will pay for some of their ideas . |
| 20 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 21 | The new chairman of the physics committee , Professor Michael Hart of Kings College , London , wants to see more representation of mainstream physics at the highest levels within the SERC — especially on the council itself . |
| 22 | A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 23 | The plan is designed to provide more caribou for hunters ; hunting of the Delta herd has been banned since 1991 . |
| 24 | Second , health campaigns for this age group appear to stand more chance of success if promoted at a group/ societal level . |
| 25 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 26 | The transport secretary thinks Britain needs more roads , and therefore wants to extract more money from road-users . |
| 27 | With the proven success of Alert , five more Trackers were launched over the following two years , the last four of these were slightly modified to provide more accommodation aft and were known as Mark II's . |
| 28 | The decision to focus mainly on Latin Europe stems from a long-held conviction by WACC-Europe members that the regional association needs to encourage more members and more communication activities in southern Europe . |
| 29 | In a speech that echoed Norman Tebbit 's infamous call to people to get on their bikes , Roads Minister Robert Key announced a series of measures designed to encourage more people to cycle . |
| 30 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |