Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 2 | The health service members ( principally community mental handicap nurses and therapists ) were almost an exact mirror image — they concentrated on a casework approach — although there is some slight hint in Table 3 of a shift towards more service development activities over time . |
| 3 | Much of the explanation for this lies in two interrelated trends : towards more white-collar jobs and towards more service jobs , both traditionally weakly organized . |
| 4 | We 're moving towards more ozone treatment for water . |
| 5 | The period 1921–1951 brought great changes with the building of more council houses and the beginning of the private building along Lanark Road . |
| 6 | There would be no financial incentive to visit or the perverse effect of more night visits leading to decreasing rates of payment . |
| 7 | In January 1989 the Civil Aviation Authority 's study of the long term options for the use of airspace and airports in the South East painted a gloomy picture of increasing airport delays and flight cancellations in the absence of more runway capacity . |
| 8 | Thailand subsequently sealed the border to prevent the influx of more Lao civilians . |
| 9 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 10 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 11 | Ballesteros explained that at a meeting of top players at Wentworth last year he had pushed the idea of more match-play golf and when told that American captain Tom Watson was also planning on the same lines he said : ‘ He copied me . ’ |
| 12 | Trevor Francis yesterday handed a vote of confidence to his stumbling Sheffield Wednesday stars by declining an offer of more transfer cash from the big-spending Hillsborough board . |
| 13 | 1986 was also the year of more TV coverage . |
| 14 | A source within in DEC who did n't want to be quoted said that hand in hand with the announcement of more Alpha RISC licencees — expected soon — DEC would also likely move to support for Unix System Labs Inc 's Unix SVR4 . |
| 15 | They will consist of more spelling games in the classroom and teaching reading by a mixture of phonetics and old-style A is for Apple , B is for Boat and C is for cat reading books . |
| 16 | Discovery of more wartime graves |
| 17 | De Gaulle showed , in a press conference on 9 September , that his most serious concern was the introduction of more majority voting in the Community in future and that this was where he most wanted changes . |
| 18 | Tory candidate Tim Devlin has been accused of ‘ political mischief ’ in his claims of more home rule to come for Thornaby by Labour rival John Scott . |
| 19 | Quite simply , the alternative of more home investment was not attractive . |
| 20 | A few weeks later he returns in search of more country delicacies . |
| 21 | Moreover , the higher taxes that are an inevitable counterpart of more government services not only act as a disincentive to saving and investment , but also " overload " the economy and crowd out opportunities for economic growth at the same time as the opening up of export markets and the defence of the home market is made ever more difficult by the inevitable inflation . |
| 22 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is in favour of more Government publicity campaigns and I shall listen to his advice on that . |
| 23 | We could have tried to address the problem without all this talk of more Government cash , more this , more that , more the other . |
| 24 | The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out . |
| 25 | Talk of more profit upgradings and lucrative sales of bits and pieces of Ward White Group went the rounds . |
| 26 | Lowering of the entry point for payment from the 30 point on the Jarman scale — Jarman has suggested that 16 is more appropriate — and the use of more payment bands might be considered . |
| 27 | Commander George Churchill Coleman , head of Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch , said that the size of the bombs ‘ marked a different dimension in the IRA campaign ’ and warned of more mainland attacks . |
| 28 | BRITISH Aerospace shares are set to rise today following the long-awaited confirmation of more defence contracts from Saudi Arabia . |
| 29 | And as the treasury team meet to discuss spending , there 's new talk of more defence cuts . |
| 30 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |