Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | We 're moving towards more ozone treatment for water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 1986 was also the year of more TV coverage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Quite simply , the alternative of more home investment was not attractive . |
| 11 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is in favour of more Government publicity campaigns and I shall listen to his advice on that . |
| 12 | We could have tried to address the problem without all this talk of more Government cash , more this , more that , more the other . |
| 13 | The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 16 | He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home . |
| 17 | It was a combination of pressure from the Consumers ’ Association ; the introduction of more consumer protection legislation ; the injection of national government funding and the reorganisation of local government in 1974 that led to the establishment of some 110 Consumer Advice Centres run by local authorities by the end of 1976 . |
| 18 | One is the suggestion that periods of great carbonate deposition correlate with peaks in the productivity of volcanoes and result from the presence of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 19 | Despite the vote in favour of more free-market reform in the referendum , Mr Chernomyrdin continues to say things like , ‘ If we do n't set up barriers to technology purchases from abroad , we will never survive . ’ |
| 20 | These fortunate people are able to seize the opportunities of more leisure time . |
| 21 | Reminding visitors that the whole thing had been lifted onto the mountain by helicopter , Robert Smith , the director of APRS said : ‘ If you are going along the way of more leisure time then this building is the shape of things to come . ’ |
| 22 | On Thursday , England began the Test with Graham Gooch out with food poisoning , and both Mike Gatting and Robin Smith unable to field because of more stomach trouble . |
| 23 | It said this would bring positive improvements like more keyhole surgery , reduced waiting lists , and a day surgery unit . |
| 24 | However , those with more computer expertise can type them in any order , if they wish , and use the SORT component of the TA programme ( see below ) to alphabetise them before printing out . |
| 25 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 26 | I mixed the cocoa shell with the soil , filled and planted the bed and then mulched over the top with more cocoa shell . |
| 27 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 28 | ‘ I like the fact that it 's got a fifth gear , which mine has n't , and it seems so light and airy , with more window area . |
| 29 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 30 | This change came about not because we were getting too big for our binding , rather we felt we could do better justice to the rich pageant of life at Sainsbury 's with more elbow room . |