Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clovers helped remove the fallow stage from cultivation , effectively bringing more land into use — as in the ‘ Norfolk Four Course ’ ( wheat , turnips , barley , and clover ) advocated but not invented by Viscount Townshend of Raynham ( ‘ Turnip ’ Townshend , 1674–1738 ) . |
| 2 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 3 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 4 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |
| 5 | These she generously donated to the club 's raffle , so adding more pleasure to the afternoon . |
| 6 | It may be , firstly , that the increased output of manufacturing is yielding marked increases in what industrial workers ( though fewer in number ) spend in the service sector , and so supporting more jobs there . |
| 7 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 8 | The Government is rightly giving more responsibility to local authorities for planning and decision making , while still providing the necessary framework . |
| 9 | There is a creeping ratchet effect : capacity means something can be done and once it is being done it is expanded or generalised ; that in turn means there is need for more support ; in turn that support needs supporting , so creating more capacity , and the cycle repeats . |
| 10 | While the main west-to-east movement in the occupation of Siberia was accomplished by the first half of the eighteenth century , the frontiers of the Russian Empire continued to be pushed forward in various directions , thus bringing more peoples under its control . |
| 11 | Turbocharging is one way of pushing more air into an engine , thus allowing more fuel to be burnt and more power developed . |
| 12 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |
| 13 | Here are all my colleagues rushing upstairs with great enthusiasm , diving into the committee room , anxious to get on to curb the ever growing number of rules and regulations and whilst they 're upstairs merrily getting on with it , here we are downstairs passing more things which we say we do n't want to do . |
| 14 | 4 The defender then turns into the strike she is about to deliver , thus adding more power to the knife hand to the attacker 's throat . |
| 15 | However , most practitioners consider that this risk is commercially necessary in order to be able to undertake the work , and generally speaking more work than predicted on one job is balanced out by less work than predicted on another . |
| 16 | We were told that the orders were introduced with the intention of increasing competition , thus providing more choice for customers and holding down prices . |
| 17 | With three world champions to her credit , Brazil is already nurturing more talent to add to that number and the likes of Mauricio Gugelmin are ready to step into Piquet 's and Senna 's shoes . |
| 18 | The resulting high blood sugar level — the unconverted carbohydrate — means the kidneys must work harder , thus requiring more water to flush out waste products . |
| 19 | It means ‘ to give a bit more ’ and reflects the love that Creole and Cajun people have for their cuisine , but it can refer to a helping of food , a cookery tip , or even just giving more care and attention to an everyday dish . |
| 20 | Teachers in the same breath convey the message that they value ‘ quiet ’ pupils ( often girls ) , while patently giving more time and attention to noisy pupils ( often boys ) . |
| 21 | And as people in India have got wealthier , they 're just drinking more tea . |
| 22 | Of course there were the usual fights , but one regiment soon found that its men were generally taking more punishment than they were giving out . |
| 23 | It is pointless just taking more money from motorists if they are not also given real incentives to reduce their use of cars . |
| 24 | ‘ We are already putting more money into free travel for the blind since the previously consistent approach to concessionary fares by borough councils started breaking down in the face of financial pressures ’ , he added . ’ |
| 25 | In the second half of the year the major Japanese banks were already concentrating more effort in Singapore following a downturn in lending to China and a simultaneous rise in business with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 26 | ‘ You should not speak too bluntly of forgery , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , delicately imbibing more whisky . |
| 27 | It is exclusive inasmuch as it demands a recognition of a continuously expanding number of works of art , a process which finds its correlative in cultural criticism 's developing complexity of coding , with the result that works of art and their criticism becomes increasingly ‘ difficult ’ , forever demanding more time and more money to ‘ appreciate ’ . |
| 28 | According to a recent survey , Britain 's recession-hit publishers are still producing more books than any other European country . |
| 29 | So er er er this was this was and is still gathering more powers into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 30 | HURRICANE Andrew roared through Louisiana yesterday bringing more tornados and floods . |