Example sentences of "on more " in BNC.

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1 Unless you do something about it you will be losing money — money you could have invested in new equipment , or better marketing , or taking on more employees .
2 He found he had taken on more than he bargained for .
3 The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable .
4 The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches .
5 Japan , especially , is likely to be pressured to take on more of the burden sharing .
6 Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government .
7 Anyway , with the Soviet threat on the wane and the Europeans proposing to take on more of the burden that is left , the cost to the United States of staying on in Europe will henceforth be smaller .
8 As the firm takes on more debt , so the cost of equity ( the total return demanded by investors ) must rise in proportion .
9 This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman .
10 At the same time , firms not taking part in takeovers took on more debt , either gradually or in so-called ‘ leveraged recapitalisations ’ — in effect self-takeovers in which firms ' existing shareholders swapped some of their equity into debt .
11 If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for .
12 I know I can improve on my acting by taking on more demanding roles , performances that are more difficult than playing Charlene day in day out .
13 HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done .
14 Meanwhile , Easy Rider , itself , began to take on more menacing tones as it neared its climax .
15 Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate .
16 It 's obviously important to make sure you do n't take on more than you can afford .
17 Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today .
18 Do n't expect governors to take on more than they can manage .
19 In a year of recession , Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand .
20 I knew too that if Jerry had ever behaved as I did , taking on more than he could chew , then I too would have responded in like manner .
21 This acts as an insurance against driving protest below the surface where it may take on more sinister forms .
22 Add power to cruise revs ( all the while keeping the yoke fully aft ) and roll on more bank until the upper wing is almost vertical , and the Aircoupe will twizzle round like a good ‘ un , with nary a murmur or complaint , and will even climb in this state on a good day .
23 She was n't going to take on more trouble … there was enough of her own .
24 There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted .
25 The scheme announced yesterday means women who now have to collect their children from school can take on more demanding jobs with longer hours .
26 Some management theorists maintain that in every organisation there is a hard core of mavericks who are reluctant to take on more responsibility .
27 TOURISM businesses are bucking the recession with two west Suffolk employers taking on more staff and one of them , a hotel , reporting its busiest February for 20 years .
28 He said American Airlines wanted to take on more transatlantic routes , but had been bogged down by bilateral agreements between the British and U.S. governments which had still not been finalised .
29 Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future .
30 HEAD FOR HEIGHTS : A stuntman took on more than the scary Jaws
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