Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fisheries protection vessel has been sent out after more clashes between French and British trawlers off the Scilly Isles . |
| 2 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 3 | ( I detect a subtle shift towards more emphasis on individual 's ‘ choice ’ , including choice to leave . ) |
| 4 | Intended to reach the parts of the population museums do not easily reach , this show in fact attracted a derisory 9000 or so paying visitors in the two months that it was open from 16 November last , despite more coverage on TV than most exhibitions . |
| 5 | It would prefer to limit production through a greater use of quotas and the withdrawal of more land from production . |
| 6 | Since 1979 the balance has moved steadily against tax cutting in favour of more spending on education and the NHS . |
| 7 | This involved the embellishment of church interiors through the use of the visual arts ; the incorporation of more music into church services ; and an emphasis on the need for greater reverence and respect in worship . |
| 8 | But the idea of more money for road-building will infuriate environmentalists . |
| 9 | Her mother instantly took on the burden of more work without fuss . |
| 10 | I said that we would be taking stock , and I meant precisely that — taking stock on the basis of an increased vote in Scotland , on the basis of more Members of Parliament for Scotland and on ways of seeking to increase the strength of the Union . |
| 11 | It was full of more men in white . |
| 12 | This transition is a consequence of the growing together of the Computing and Library departments , together with the storage of more information on CD ROM and other media . |
| 13 | This logical change would have had the effect of encouraging the diversion of more people from court proceedings . |
| 14 | One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it . |
| 15 | Detroit-made compacts began to challenge cheap Volkswagens and foreign imports : only , being produced under the Detroit philosophy of more car per car , they were soon so accessorized , automated and air-conditioned that they were no longer cheap . |
| 16 | In 1987 Jim tried again with Sky TV presenter Alison Holloway but they split after seven months amid more claims of violence . |
| 17 | In 1985 dredgers were busily raking up gravel from the shoals in the river to put into more gabions for bank reinforcement beside the Trannon . |
| 18 | The state is rapidly drawn into more areas of intervention on behalf of the neo-colonial relations of production . |
| 19 | Pupil Gender : It is well documented that boys get into more trouble in school than girls and that boys are generally more assertive and visible . |
| 20 | Day One we talked a lot about equipment and its use ; on the second day about how to handle the birds , and on Day Three Brian went into more detail about care and treatment . |
| 21 | If the job or employer is unusual , then it may be helpful to go into more detail in advance of your interview , simply to allow whoever is vetting your application to pick you out from the crowd . |
| 22 | Make a special check at this time of year , fencing is put under more pressure in winter , because horses push against it trying to reach grass on the other side and mill round gateways wanting to come in . |
| 23 | The waiter was coming by with more glasses of champagne . |
| 24 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 25 | With more emphasis on household products , does this mean that Marks and Spencer is turning itself into a supermarket ? |
| 26 | But changes in the means of production , and especially printing , led to new forms of control , with more emphasis on prevention than on retribution : a direct reflection of the new conditions of rapid and extensive reproduction . |
| 27 | Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued . |
| 28 | I put my hand to my ear with more awareness of danger than an ashtray full of broken promises . |
| 29 | This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families . |
| 30 | As she wondered , in he came with more boxes of gear . |