Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 2 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 3 | Such basic considerations , however , tend to provide more information about what was impossible than about what occurred , and their explanatory power is therefore limited . |
| 4 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 5 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 6 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 7 | We want to see more opportunities for training , more encouragement to enterprise , better education and more measures to tackle drugs and crime . |
| 8 | The regional arts associations want to see more decentralisation , but Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , said that when Mr Wilding undertook his inquiry at the start of the year he was unhappy about the accountability of some regional arts associations . |
| 9 | Second , health campaigns for this age group appear to stand more chance of success if promoted at a group/ societal level . |
| 10 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 11 | People who want to open more shops complain that it is becoming ever harder , and more expensive , to find and bribe the correct official responsible for allocating premises . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to hear more stories , ’ Walterkin said . |
| 13 | ‘ We expect to win more line-out ball — an area that has been our undoing in the past — and we are all now encouraged to think for ourselves . |
| 14 | We also want to help more leaseholders to own and control the management of their property . |
| 15 | But when you want to use more fonts , what do you do ? |
| 16 | Mak sees it as part of her job to raise the expectations of the community , while Lukey says : ‘ Not only do we hope to discover unmet needs , but we want to generate more demand . |
| 17 | The sci-fi movie , filmed at Pinewood Studios , is the last such epic for Sigourney , she says , adding : ‘ I want to do more love stories . |
| 18 | But if you still get through all that and you want to do more try sixty . |
| 19 | Detectives still want to contact more people who may have seen what happened . |
| 20 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 21 | ‘ We want to place more emphasis on forward play . |
| 22 | You want to eat more bread you do ! |
| 23 | So , for example , if you want to eat more foods containing dairy produce in Week 2 , or more chocolate containing foods in Week 4 , you will need to compensate by dropping your mid-morning and possibly your mid-afternoon snack . |
| 24 | Or , if you want to have more fun … |
| 25 | Or perhaps you want to have more fun , and laugh more ? |
| 26 | If you want to have more fun , for example , do you also believe that work justifies your existence , or that fun-loving people waste time , or that it 's ‘ better ’ to be serious and heavy-hearted ? |
| 27 | I want to get more experience under my belt . |
| 28 | Both say they want to get more people who 'll stay longer . |
| 29 | Greater financial accountability , particularly for bodies utilizing government funds at a level of 50 per cent or more , was also envisaged and the establishment of new non-departmental bodies would , it was promised , involve negotiating more hurdles than hitherto . |
| 30 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |