Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing . |
| 2 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 3 | They agreed to invite more men to the next meeting ( two attended the Harare workshop ) and to make a concerted effort to bring their concerns to the AACC leadership . |
| 4 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 5 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 6 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 7 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 8 | Both say they want to get more people who 'll stay longer . |
| 9 | They seemed to have more money . |
| 10 | They 'd found more signs . |
| 11 | I am loathe to take it back to SMAC where I bought it new , as they seem to do more harm than good whenever it goes back there . |
| 12 | And yet they seem to have more resources , more crime prevention officers , more everything |
| 13 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 14 | In 1989 however they decided to bring more people into Medicaid up to 100 per cent of the line , by restricting the number of treatments it would pay for . |
| 15 | They kept ordering more brandy and all seemed genuinely upset . |
| 16 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 17 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 18 | They did need more evidence . |
| 19 | because this has happened time and time again and yes they do need more life cover or they do need a PHI policy or a savings plan . |
| 20 | Although other services are able to provide 32Kbps transmission , they choose to provide more lines per pipe . |
| 21 | mm I mean every Government does some good and some bad , but on the whole I think the Conservative have done good , because they 've made more people home owners than ever before |
| 22 | But they 'll be back , when they 've gathered more men , if we do n't do something about it . ’ |
| 23 | that 's lining their pockets who 've they 've got more money than they know what to do with |
| 24 | So what you think , they 've got more things there ? |
| 25 | They 've got more clout than anybody else . |
| 26 | One , one suspects with some authorities they , they 've got more justification for referring to these elected clowns that get in the way . |
| 27 | Apparently they 've got more power than most organizations or , you know |
| 28 | er by bloody Christ , they 've got more backs than bloody forwards I think |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ted explained that they had uncovered more bones including the animal . |