Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money . |
| 2 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 3 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 4 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 5 | Still bubbling after his irresistible display against Turkey in midweek , Wright is looking to inflict more damage on Leeds ' porous defence , which has leaked 28 goals in 15 games — more than any Premier League side . |
| 6 | Looking to put more punch into cordless drills , Luna Tools and Machinery Ltd is introducing two new Torque Force impact drills from Ryobi , the TFI-180i and the TFI-230i . |
| 7 | Library and information science researchers keep wanting to do more research on the ‘ information needs of managers ’ in the vain hope that , eventually , they will find some managers somewhere who say that librarians and information scientists are the salt of the earth , and that their businesses would fail without them ! |
| 8 | Playboater are to pull out of retailing to allow more time for other projects . |
| 9 | The Labour consumer chief has the backing of Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs in wanting to force more competition into the market . |
| 10 | Willis was walking towards Dreadnought with the man from the boatyard , whose manner suggested that he was refusing to supply more tar , gas and water until the previous bill had been paid . |
| 11 | And if you 're wanting to spend more time on Johnson at any stage , this is sort of there 's something that I sort of do n't trust producing some er , you know a play to a load of boxes but erm , la la la , and sheets as well . |
| 12 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 13 | Brenda said : ‘ I think people are wanting to take more responsibility for their own health . |
| 14 | Until we can ram that message home , we are going to see more families robbed of their nearest and dearest in the most senseless of tragedies . |
| 15 | We were entering woodland and , by the twittering and warbling from oak , ash and pine , were going to see more birds . |
| 16 | There comes a point when the costs of attempting to obtain more sales through the channel outweigh the revenue and profits to be gained from those increased sales . |
| 17 | I do n't want a discussion about this because it 's going to engender more problems than it will solve . ’ |
| 18 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 19 | Now there 's a number of recommendations in the study , and that includes the introduction of a twenty mile an hour speed limit , surely that 's going to cause more problems than it solves ? |
| 20 | An elderly unstable diabetic patient admitted for surgery , for instance , is obviously going to require more hospital treatment than a younger fitter patient . |
| 21 | Back at Beaumont 's Foulrice Farm , television camera crews were waiting to heap more adulation on the horse . |
| 22 | Are you going to do more work ? |
| 23 | In practical terms this means that attempting to elicit more luminescence from a mineral by simply increasing beam power can have the reverse effect if the saturation level is exceeded . |
| 24 | I can also recommend the Annapurna from Mountain Equipment ( £189 ) , which has a lightly elasticated lining to give more warmth for less weight . |
| 25 | During this tim the teem hav kept up sum kind of consisstincy by continuwing to loose more games than it haz one . |
| 26 | The reason I joined was I thought they were going to get more money for me , not take it away . ’ |
| 27 | So if there are less people sharing it out are we going to get more pizza or are we going to get less ? |
| 28 | If you 're not sure if you ca n't remember try C because it 's more likely to be right so you 're going to get more marks Oh he 's got this right and they wo n't be putting careless on it they 'll say Oh he knows what he 's doing here . |
| 29 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 30 | Not that you 're going to get more time because |