Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual 's personal circumstances , the demand for labour in the economy , restrictive practices , the opportunities offered by employers for more work effort , and so on . |
| 2 | Hundreds of parents in the county have back calls for more education spending . |
| 3 | Or maybe , the soul that has striven to rise above human weakness is given a brief , or longer , sojourn in some higher , astral sphere — until the effects of such aspirations are outweighed by the desires of the mind for more life experience in this denser , physical world . |
| 4 | Sweet-talking greater output from car workers : Barrie Clement , Labour Editor , on a bid for more shopfloor commitment |
| 5 | Sarah Chalmers on demands for more winter aid for the most vulnerable |
| 6 | These fortunate people are able to seize the opportunities of more leisure time . |
| 7 | Quite simply , the alternative of more home investment was not attractive . |
| 8 | We could have tried to address the problem without all this talk of more Government cash , more this , more that , more the other . |
| 9 | One is the suggestion that periods of great carbonate deposition correlate with peaks in the productivity of volcanoes and result from the presence of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 10 | The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out . |
| 11 | 2 Within the system of government , the increased numbers of bureaucrats and officials involved in welfare and public-service provision were themselves a powerful lobby for more state activity . |
| 12 | In its latest expedition , an improved vehicle took thousands of still shots and 23 hours of videotape of the Hamilton and the Scourge , both about 20 metres long and top-heavy with cannon for more fire power . |
| 13 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 14 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 15 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 16 | On May 28 , 1991 , the government announced a new transport initiative which would ( i ) bring to an end the monopoly of freight and passenger services on its own tracks in advance of an eventual privatization of British Rail ; ( ii ) improve grants for the construction of freight distribution facilities ; ( iii ) involve the private sector in more road construction ; and ( iv ) relieve urban road congestion . |
| 17 | The programmes were broadly similar in their call for a gradual transition to the market and a return to more state control . |
| 18 | It said this would bring positive improvements like more keyhole surgery , reduced waiting lists , and a day surgery unit . |
| 19 | Representatives also emphasised the need for more skill training . |
| 20 | Why is there , I 've assumed from that , there is a need for more contract hire for the officers . |
| 21 | Here the three open fields which practically surrounded the ancient town had all been enclosed before the need for more building land had become desperate . |
| 22 | The need for more space lead to the move to the present offices at Grosvenor Gardens House , where a small secretariat serves to administer the affairs of the Society . |
| 23 | There is no longer any need for more payload capacity . |
| 24 | Still more news includes monitors for more viewing pleasure on most of our B747s , plus ITN News to keep you informed as you cross continents . |
| 25 | The health service members ( principally community mental handicap nurses and therapists ) were almost an exact mirror image — they concentrated on a casework approach — although there is some slight hint in Table 3 of a shift towards more service development activities over time . |
| 26 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 27 | Also fine is ‘ Deep Sleep ’ , where Therapy ? use drum ‘ n ’ bass dub effect as the foundation for more rat scratch guitar work and drowsy vocalising . |
| 28 | I mixed the cocoa shell with the soil , filled and planted the bed and then mulched over the top with more cocoa shell . |
| 29 | Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays . |
| 30 | While echoing the Government 's ‘ partnership ’ theme in its rhetoric , and paying dutiful lip service to the principle of laissez-faire , the coded message of the CBI is an urgent demand for more government funding , not less . |