Example sentences of "doing more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a fifty-year old person , losing some weight and doing more exercise will improve your looks and your outlook on life , but you will not look twenty years old . |
| 2 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 3 | We are doing more functions than ever and we have also had a lot more visitors from America . ’ |
| 4 | But these kindly visitors may be doing more damage than chain-saws . |
| 5 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 6 | Th you drive along a massive machine , probably doing more damage getting up and down the kerbs a and everything else . |
| 7 | If , however , you ca n't get it out immediately , do n't poke and do n't stick your finger blindly down her throat or you risk doing more damage . |
| 8 | The effect of doing more work or adding extra lexicographers will be to degrade individual response times . |
| 9 | Because it 's doing more work is n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ When we played Knebworth during the summer , the band discussed the possibility of doing more dates in England . |
| 11 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 12 | We have been doing more heavyweight interviews . |
| 13 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 14 | Also , dreary though the suggestion sounds , if economies look like being the order of the day , two-car families might assess whether , come retirement when perhaps husband and wife will be doing more things together , two cars are really such an essential as before . |
| 15 | Even if you 're doing more recording , more transcribing , nicely . |
| 16 | While wishing you well on the trip , I ca n't help feeling that you 'd be doing more good by campaigning for better facilities for cyclists , in particular for routes and paths which segregate cycles from motor vehicles . |
| 17 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 18 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 19 | I think there are ways round it , by being fitter and doing more training through the season . |
| 20 | The population of Oxenhope doubles during the weekend of the race , with shops doing more trade than at Christmas . |
| 21 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 22 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 23 | Now , as we learn to ask animals the right questions , we can avoid doing more harm than good through well-meaning concepts of what constitutes a happy life . |
| 24 | Some American businessmen wondered if the United States was not doing more harm than good by underwriting the domestic policies of the Labour government . |
| 25 | There has to always be a control and that control will necessarily involve experiments on animals and the animal pressure groups are doing more harm than they can ever conceivably imagine by trying to control experiments on animals , because if they do n't experiment on animals a human somewhere is going to die . |
| 26 | " From now on we 're going to be doing more enforcement , " the official was quoted as saying . |
| 27 | But what if the parent is not happy with this and believes that their child really ought to be doing more homework ? |
| 28 | Do not try to speed up progress by doing more goals in any one week than you should . |
| 29 | The waiters , reminiscent of the Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall , seem to be doing more business than I am . |