Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They plan to create a UK Sports Commission to encourage more people to take up sport . |
| 2 | The meeting also heard the town 's 131 Neighbourhood Watch groups will be circulated with information on the work of Special Constables to encourage more people to sign up . |
| 3 | The partnership wants more firms to take on people like Glen to tackle crime at its source . |
| 4 | A more gentle upbringing means that the animal has more time to build up the reserves of fat necessary to lubricate the meat . |
| 5 | The first allows more people to come in and supply all the services involved in providing credit cards . |
| 6 | Animals could lead more comfortable lives if there were not so many competitors , each seeking more space to live in , more food , and ( if they are males ) more mates . |
| 7 | We 've also had more facilities to play around with . |
| 8 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 9 | then you 've got more room to get round If you sit glued to the pavement it 's a hell of a job to get round |
| 10 | That requires more people to carry out the Conservative Government Acts of Parliament , and we are bound to employ more people to do that . |
| 11 | The resulting high blood sugar level — the unconverted carbohydrate — means the kidneys must work harder , thus requiring more water to flush out waste products . |
| 12 | ‘ You know more ways to fold up my marriage than any other man living . ’ |
| 13 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 14 | I think you should make more effort to find out about places like this , and I think the schools should make an effort to tell you . |
| 15 | That on Personal Budgeting advised , ‘ Never borrow more money to pay off existing debts ; there is always a better solution . ’ |
| 16 | Ladies Day — All activities in the Festival area are aimed at encouraging more ladies to take up tennis . |
| 17 | The railway would merely permit more people to move about , meet and be stupid together . |
| 18 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
| 19 | They 've just produced a luxury version of the aircraft , which they hope will encourage more people to take up the sport . |
| 20 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 21 | In reality , the risk is really rather slight , though even this can be eliminated by taking more trouble to rinse off all the detergent from the cat 's dishes . |
| 22 | This gives the glider pilot more time to find out why his glider is semi-stalled and is sinking like a brick . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's important to get more children to take up school dinners . |
| 24 | I have rarely met two Ministers who take more trouble to carry out the duties of their ministerial office . |
| 25 | The Japanese take more trouble to find out how the US system really works , and who can make it work for them . |
| 26 | Police inquiry desks in Darlington will be staffed by civilians rather than policemen , leaving more officers to go out on the beat , if the Chief Constable of County Durham gets his way . |
| 27 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 28 | Then , usually , he set more puffball to smoke in underneath , to kill off all the bees , and they would move on to the next hive . |
| 29 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 30 | The VWA , one of five Dutch sado-masochism associations , is recommending stricter fire safety regulations because ‘ people who are handcuffed or tied up need more time to get out of a building ’ . |