Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] a greater [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USA pressed instead for a full 12-month moratorium on involuntary repatriation in order to give refugees a greater opportunity to take advantage of voluntary repatriation schemes ; the Vietnamese government proposed a nine-month moratorium . |
| 2 | As can be seen from the above it is possible to give questions a greater focus of purpose by considering what process it is that you wish the pupils to go through . |
| 3 | This was to give teachers a greater understanding of the dynamics of their classroom and to enable interdepartmental discussion about how the new Humanities course was working . |
| 4 | It would seem then that if conditions of work were altered in order to give employees a greater control over such factors as the pace at which they work , and the arrangement of their working day around breaks at times which they feel are necessary , then certain improvements may be achieved . |
| 5 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 6 | Giving employees a greater say in how their companies operate could be an important step towards such a goal , but Laing is opposed to the appointment of worker directors , as is the practice in Scandinavia . |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards a wide range of new channels offered viewers a greater choice of television programmes from sport to movies and from news to music . |
| 8 | The limitation that can now be placed on the child-bearing and child-rearing years gives women a greater choice as to whether to return to work sooner , later or not at all . |
| 9 | It is argued that this gives unions a greater degree of control over their members and greater bargaining strength . |
| 10 | By apparently offering parents a greater choice of schools , these provisions — as indeed those establishing grant-maintained schools — seek to increase their power as ‘ consumers ’ . |