Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 2 | And now John Cleese has added more fuel to the debate . |
| 3 | ‘ Looks more AC to me , ’ said Daisy , draining the last of the vodka and orange . |
| 4 | Police say they still want more witnesses to the incident . |
| 5 | But they want more plastic to be recycled . |
| 6 | Some community services are making serious efforts to provide more resources to the unemployed , hampered though they are by limits on local government expenditure . |
| 7 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 8 | In 1987 , the staff at Orsay realised the need to provide more help to visitors to ‘ see better the works we were proposing for their viewing , ’ said Francoise LeCoz , director of the multimedia workshop . |
| 9 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 10 | Power-assisted steering fitted as standard to all Safrane models is a speed-sensitive system that ‘ weights up ’ as road speed increases to provide more feedback to the driver . |
| 11 | The explanation of these variations is that , in the Siamese cat , a lower skin temperature causes more pigmentation to be laid down in the growing hairs . |
| 12 | A rise in money supply causes more shares to be purchased . |
| 13 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 14 | So although the wet climate in the west of Britain causes more magnesium to be washed from the soil than in Germany , this amount is far less than that added to the soil each year from rainfall . |
| 15 | A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one . |
| 16 | Anya leans forward and adds more coal to the fire . |
| 17 | Publicity around President Mitterand 's recent diagnosis may alert more men to the possibility of this form of cancer . |
| 18 | The Agricultural Society are particularly keen to hear from cycling organisations this year as part of their campaign to encourage more visitors to cycle to the showground . |
| 19 | You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I fear that if you send more letters to the theatre Mrs Seale will notice the pug and will tell Papa . |
| 22 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 23 | What about for local businesses , erm what do you think could be done to actually to attract more businesses to the area ? |
| 24 | The group has organised a trade mission to the New England Environmental Expo 93 exhibition and conference and is anxious to attract more firms to the trip . |
| 25 | The town 's Environment City title is central to the development plan , along with hopes to attract more visitors to Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | New pond : Volunteers have created a pond on the banks of the Tees at The Holmes , Thornaby , in a bid to attract more wildlife to the area , in a Cleveland County Council , British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and Wildlife Trust partnership . |
| 27 | A new video that 's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors . |
| 28 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 29 | The conference was set up to attract more business to north Oxfordshire , where along of the flanks of the M40 empty office space is part of the landscape . |
| 30 | The Church of England has set up a working party to investigate the possibility of placing advertisements on radio and television in a bid to attract more people to the Church . |