Example sentences of "and [v-ing] more [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time that we started reading and hearing more of the good people can do for themselves and for others . |
| 2 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 3 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 4 | It rather put paid to any idea she 'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though . |
| 5 | This was achieved by altering the mix and concentrating more on the lower-priced er china such as erm chain stores and hotel and airline ware . |