Example sentences of "take more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Piaroa leaders , the ruwatu , take more skills of wizardry within themselves than normal people . |
| 2 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 3 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 4 | they take more petrol , but servicing-wise they do n't require as much |
| 5 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 6 | Take more exercise |
| 7 | If you were to ask twenty men or women in the street what they should do to avoid heart disease the majority would say , ‘ take more exercise and eat margarine instead of butter . ’ |
| 8 | But you may find that sometimes your doctor will explain that a prescription will not help to treat your illness and that the best way for you to get well is to rest , change your diet , drink plenty of fluids , stop smoking , cut down on alcohol or take more exercise . |
| 9 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 10 | He laughed and added , ‘ Take more water with it next time … you 'll be seeing pink elephants next time . |
| 11 | We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’ |
| 12 | The effect of a VAT would be simply to weigh down companies with paperwork , take more money from over-taxed Americans , and throw it into that black hole we call the American government . |
| 13 | Suitcases take more hols alone |
| 14 | If Ferdinando left the Brownings service and came in with her , adopting his rightful position , then she could manage even better and take more boarders and they would be self-supporting besides living together always . |
| 15 | Older people need to be in hospital longer , to consult general practitioners more often and take more drugs , and to have more home-based chiropody and nursing services and more personal social services than younger people ( Social Trends 1987 ) . |
| 16 | I mean do do yo , do you think women take more drugs than men do , whether recreationally or or or fo for their health or now th , is th is there a particular problem that women have with drugs whether it 's illegal drugs or tranquillizers ? |
| 17 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 18 | Moreover , counties take more spinners into four-day matches than they do into three-day games and to win the Championship two decent spin bowlers are essential in a year of normal weather . |
| 19 | This , in turn , requires more significant technical and conceptual changes , which take more planning time in order to build consensus . |
| 20 | Instead take more note of his remark that though he thought us ugly to look at , we are not ugly to be with . |
| 21 | Most directors take more interest in the negotiation of the service contract than in any other document , and understandably so . |
| 22 | ‘ People take more interest because the weather gets cold , ’ said Mr Walters . |
| 23 | Women take more time , talk easily and still adhere to the strict rules of manners . |
| 24 | Oral and practical assessments take more time , yet yield richer , but more ambiguous , information . |
| 25 | You just take more time over it . |
| 26 | Friendships in Japan take more time to form , are deeper and last longer than those in the West and often these obligations extend to business relationships . |
| 27 | Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know . |
| 28 | ‘ Take more people on to your payroll ? ’ |
| 29 | Stuck 's first collection must have attracted some adverse criticism , for his later collections ( 1708 , 1711 , 1714 ) take more account of the French language and are much more conservative in their key plans . |
| 30 | It called for changes in US regulatory practice to reflect this , and demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) take more account of health concerns when setting safe levels . |