Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason , they reject solutions such as encouraging more women into science ; as Spender puts it |
| 2 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 3 | The phenomenon was first detected at the Bugey-3 reactor in France in September 1991 , but Greenpeace criticises the state electricity company , Electricité de France ( EDF ) , for devoting more attention to rectifying problems as they occur than to examining the causes . |
| 4 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 5 | These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers , but for blocking the entire application . |
| 6 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |
| 7 | subordinates ask for delegated powers or demonstrate potential for acquiring more responsibility |
| 8 | He is therefore cautious about purchasing more services . |
| 9 | The question about tackling more tasks on the farm than at present was to ascertain if women : ( a ) wanted to do more , or ( b ) thought it was their responsibility to be able to contribute more to the farm . |
| 10 | Some headway was made in expanding self-sufficiency , whether through utilising more land for agriculture , developing home economies , or encouraging local manufacturers and products . |
| 11 | Then , after drinking more coffee , he pressed on : Launceston , Bodmin Moor , Bodmin . |
| 12 | Ola , a six-year-old chimp , has become world-famous after making more money in one month than five of Sweden 's top financial experts . |
| 13 | First , there was the simple fact of depopulation which diminished the general size of the market and the level of demand for indigenous manufactures , and no doubt thereby arrested the economic development of the whole region ; second , the depopulation affected agriculture , reducing some previous food exporting regions to starvation levels by the nineteenth century ; third , African production of cloth , metalware and other handicrafts was severely affected , not only by the loss of so many of its producers , but also by the fact that in return the slave traders penetrated the markets of the coast and hinterland with European cotton and manufactured goods ; and fourth , as the demand for slaves multiplied and as many African kings and merchants became even more dependent on European trade , war raids for the capture of potential slaves from neighbouring societies became even more frequent , injecting political instability , consuming precious economic resources , and creating a vicious spiral in which rival kingdoms became ever more dependent on the slave trade to acquire the fire arms necessary for capturing more slaves and in turn defending their slaves against slave-hunting raids from neighbouring kingdoms ( Rodney , 1972 , pp. 104–23 ; Davidson , 1974 , pp. 206 — 10 ; Inikoria , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ The merger provides the potential for developing more business than we would have achieved separately and I am confident that we have the basis for a successful future . |
| 15 | The merger will , therefore , Eyre explained , produce a wider portfolio of environmental services for the customers , and provide the potential for developing more business than the teams would have achieved separately . |
| 16 | I 've just broken the record for writing more books than any English author has ever done . |
| 17 | Organisations ' reasons for wanting more women |
| 18 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 19 | Of course , it is n't just a question of using more spices , but of knowing how to blend them . |
| 20 | Billions of dollars of commercial mortgages have been securitised ( ie , bundled up to back tradable bonds that are sold to investors ) ; real-estate investment trusts ( a tax-favoured property-investment vehicle ) are booming ; and other ways of encouraging more investors to own small parts of big buildings are being explored . |
| 21 | A new logo will be unveiled , and tourism marketing experts will look at ways of encouraging more Americans to see what Scotland has to offer . |
| 22 | We think that one way of encouraging more women 's participation is to increase the number of women coaches , and therefore provide girls with more positive role models . |
| 23 | PEPs , which were introduced in 1987 as a means of encouraging more people to invest in stocks and shares , are now considered to represent an important part of a balanced savings portfolio , with over 2 million people having now bought one . |
| 24 | The workshop was free for visitors , part of the festival organisers ' aim of encouraging more people to take an interest in dance . |
| 25 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 26 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 27 | You 're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads . |
| 28 | Any lingering hopes of bringing more children out of Germany were finally stifled by a Home Office ruling that refugees from enemy territories would no longer be allowed entry under any circumstances . |
| 29 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 30 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |