Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | The shanny and marine stickleback have five pigments in their eyes , allowing them to discern more hues than we can . |
| 3 | The University seeks to include in its courses activities which promote enterprising qualities in its students by encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning , setting their own goals and targets through personal assessment and career planning . |
| 4 | to enable them to have more management time , like we 're looking at trying to get them to reduce their work their case loads |
| 5 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 6 | Second , by pooling their financial resources , the merging companies may enjoy better creditworthiness and access to cheaper borrowing , enabling them to take more risks and finance larger research projects . |
| 7 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I want him to have more shots on goal and get on the end of more chances . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 10 | The logic of their own methods is thus pushing them to buy more parts locally — for their own reasons , regardless of political rules demanding higher local content . |
| 11 | That going in the form of higher spending power to the workers themselves allows them to buy more goods or services . |
| 12 | Ulph ( 1987 ) points out that those who earn close to the tax threshold will enjoy little or no income effect from the tax cut so that the substitution effect should dominate , causing them to work more hours . |
| 13 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 14 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 15 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 16 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 17 | They are a source of great uncertainty and insecurity that leads them to have more children than they would otherwise . |
| 18 | Got I to grow more carrots . |
| 19 | erm I 'd still like you to do more work on differentiation . |
| 20 | And and then I 'd like both of you separately to say which bits you 'd like to go over again and which bits you 'd like us to spend more time doing more and more examples of . |
| 21 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 22 | They told the Cannes conference that new legislation that requires them to give more information on toxic chemicals to federal safety watchdogs could leave them wide open to spies . |
| 23 | Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods . |
| 24 | ‘ Companies would benefit by drawing from a wider pool of talent and ability than is currently considered , ’ he writes , ‘ and it would enable them to appoint more women . |
| 25 | A wet suit will also enable you to spend more time on the water than if you only venture out when the sun is shining . |
| 26 | When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year . |
| 27 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |
| 28 | ‘ Their achievements have enabled us to provide more resources where they were needed — for schools , hospitals , pensioners and disabled people . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Not in the least ’ , he told me , ‘ In fact , it lets us off the hook and will enable us to have more freedom perhaps than before ’ . |
| 30 | This paper is intended to examine how changing the way branches are run could enable us to get more members involved and expand the work done . |