Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations ' reasons for wanting more women |
| 2 | He said that given the expressed interest of all political parties in attracting more women candidates , the research might also inform party policy and practice in this area . |
| 3 | BRITISH RAIL believes it could be on the right lines for attracting more passengers in Cleveland . |
| 4 | There are the obvious slots for plugging in more circuit boards , sometimes as many as eight ; there are sockets for adding more main memory , sockets for adding more video memory , and a socket for co-processor to help with complicated maths ; and there are bays next to the disk drive lying vacant waiting for CD-ROM drives , bigger hard disks or whatever . |
| 5 | Reliable data on the staffing consequences of these factors do not exist , and the committee recommends that research should be undertaken to quantify them , especially the effects of changing skill mix , the cost implications of employing more doctors , and the extent to which doctors are abandoning medical careers . |
| 6 | The Science and Technology Directorate ‘ will badger governments into giving more money to [ educational ] institutions … it is futile for governments to spend money to increase industry 's competitiveness ’ it is better spent on projects in educational institutions . |
| 7 | His plan was to push the banks into investing more risk capital — a pressure which the banks so far have been able to resist . |
| 8 | Darlington and District Vehicle Inspectorate , who carried out the incognito tests , have now put three MOT garages out of action and banned eight MOT testers from testing more cars . |
| 9 | Dr Hobbs said both parties were caught by the need to appear tough on crime while not wanting to further drain resources by jailing more people . |
| 10 | It is typical of the Labour party 's attitude that it would fritter away additional resources by spending more money not on increasing the number of training places but on paying more to those already in training places . |
| 11 | Science offers a key to solving environmental problems by providing more data to construct better predictive models . |
| 12 | In recent years the NUAAW has striven to overcome some of its organizational difficulties by recruiting more workers in the agricultural ancillary industries , especially in food-processing factories . |
| 13 | Nutritionists have long extolled the virtues of incorporating more rice in our Western diets , and as well as being so healthy , cooking with Tilda Basmati Rice could n't be simpler . |
| 14 | A new logo will be unveiled , and tourism marketing experts will look at ways of encouraging more Americans to see what Scotland has to offer . |
| 15 | Billions of dollars of commercial mortgages have been securitised ( ie , bundled up to back tradable bonds that are sold to investors ) ; real-estate investment trusts ( a tax-favoured property-investment vehicle ) are booming ; and other ways of encouraging more investors to own small parts of big buildings are being explored . |
| 16 | SCO is currently looking at ways of raising more capital — that it may go public to find it is no secret . |
| 17 | consider ways of making more money . |
| 18 | British Rail North East is also talking to local authorities about other ways of winning more people over to rail travel and reducing road traffic levels at the same time . |
| 19 | Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB . |
| 20 | A consultant who treated more patients would shorten the queue and attract more patients without attracting more resources — more anxiety and no reward or means to do the job . |
| 21 | There is a lot of teacher input into the examination boards , and all sorts of moves towards introducing more course work , and more practical elements into the syllabuses . ’ |
| 22 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 23 | Add flavour to your meals by using more herbs , spices and garlic . |
| 24 | Attempts to professionalize the police by recruiting more graduates and introducing specialist training is thus resisted by many from below . |
| 25 | It would also increase rent revenue as tenants would be better off and more satisfied , and could also increase the authority 's chances of winning more money from the Government . |
| 26 | He believes the report could damage Darlington 's chances of attracting more jobs and industry by painting an unnecessarily bleak picture of the town . |
| 27 | On the other hand , some accents differ from others in having more phonemes and phonemic contrasts . |
| 28 | As for the farmer 's own income increasing , it was found that larger farmers reap better financial benefits from converting more buildings , compared to smaller farmers who just received a one-off cash injection . |
| 29 | The overriding aim is to increase the value of the reports by providing more information , but this should not be at the expense of clarity . |
| 30 | Division by two can be carried out any number o times by using more bistables . |