Example sentences of "[noun pl] for more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The row has been bubbling since October but China has intensified its attacks since Friday when British governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , decided to publish his plans for more democracy in the territory . |
| 2 | The firm 's new owners say there are no plans for more job cuts and they 're promising increased investment to develop the business . |
| 3 | MOTOR giant Ford has denied there are plans for more job cuts at the firm 's Halewood plant despite declining car sales . |
| 4 | The prisons have not so far been told what Mr Howard 's plans for more austerity in jail are likely to mean . |
| 5 | The old Company had paid lavish dividends of about 20 per cent at first , which had led to calls on the shareholders for more capital in the 1690s ; after 1709 the new company paid dividends starting at 8 per cent and declining as the years passed . |
| 6 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 7 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 8 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 9 | Thus , out of the 11 still preferring home care in the action sample nine answered quite specifically in terms of the feasibility of continued home care ( albeit with a wish in some cases for more community services ) . |
| 10 | Their plates were cleared away , and Rafaelo snapped his fingers for more wine . |
| 11 | Hens show marked and lasting preferences for more space than 450 square centimetres . |
| 12 | The individual 's personal circumstances , the demand for labour in the economy , restrictive practices , the opportunities offered by employers for more work effort , and so on . |
| 13 | Patten rap : China today unleashed a fresh attack on Hong Kong governor Chris Patten , saying his proposals for more democracy in the colony that returns to Peking 's rule in 1997 can never be accepted . |
| 14 | The Labour spokesman called for a quick decision on RUC requests for more manpower and Mr Brooke replied that he expected to make an announcement very soon . |
| 15 | I am not fed-up , making veiled requests for more money , but simply trying to determine my own future while happy to be part of the news division . |
| 16 | Offers of help or requests for more information should be sent to . |
| 17 | With stories from Millbank , ICI Paints and Kodak Limited , we are also responding to readers ' requests for more information on other parts of ICI and on other companies . |
| 18 | Hundreds of parents in the county have back calls for more education spending . |
| 19 | Polly Neate reports on calls for more monitoring of its implementation |
| 20 | Monitoring of lorries going through nearby villages takes place at frequent intervals and there are repeated calls for more potash to be transported by train . |
| 21 | Giles Shaw , Britain 's junior minister , joined American calls for more research and played down acidification as ‘ a problem of great complexity ’ affecting ‘ certain limited areas of the world ’ . |
| 22 | Her case was heard by a special committee set up by the DoH , following calls for more openness in the NHS . |
| 23 | A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services — tertiary care . |
| 24 | Even where the buildings are described in the Commission 's published series , An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of … , the researcher should write to ( or , better still , visit ) the Commission 's London offices for more information than has appeared on the printed pages . |
| 25 | To introduce a more open system of sentence discounts and ask the judge what the maximum sentence could be — this recognises the need of all parties for more certainty about the options which are available and the value of saving the victim from giving evidence and the public from having to bear the cost of an unnecessary trial . |
| 26 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 27 | Mr Baker 's demands for more emphasis on grammar began a ridiculous debate in the newspapers , during which most participants revealed their misunderstanding of language by taking for granted that the rules of grammar are fixed and permanent throughout time . |
| 28 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 29 | All you 'll get from John Self is smalltalk , flattery and squealed demands for more drink . |
| 30 | Sarah Chalmers on demands for more winter aid for the most vulnerable |