Example sentences of "[verb] a more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 2 | This might suggest that older people hold a more collectivist public health notion of improving health status . |
| 3 | In research terms the study of programmed instruction was instrumental in encouraging a more systems view of the teaching/training process with associated trends towards greater consideration of objectives , task analysis , cost/ benefits and so on . |
| 4 | In contrast the breakdown of détente and the new assertiveness characteristic of American policy in the 1980s induced Soviet leaders and foreign policy specialists to adopt a more realpolitik appraisal of the international scene . |
| 5 | They often have a very small percentage of the population anyway , and er I 'm glad we 've brought this matter up , because I think that is something which needs further investigation , that the the ordinary public and the many little , or the millions of voluntary organisations ought to be encouraged to have a more output in forwarding names . |
| 6 | My guess is though , that if , if the age difference had been something like erm , seven or eight years , by the time your mother was asking you to give up sweets for your very much younger brother , you would probably have matured sufficiently and perhaps identified enough with your mother to see yourself playing a more kind of maternal role , as , you know the grown up sister . |
| 7 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 8 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 9 | In their place , he has advocated a more activist government role in the economy , by increasing public works spending , cutting middle-class taxes and retraining workers to prepare them for competition in the global marketplace . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the country was in the throes of a year-long wave of strikes and protests against the government 's measures to introduce a more free-market economic system and to privatize state-owned industries . |