Example sentences of "as [verb] more [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 2 | ‘ As well as opening more boutiques in England , France and Germany , I 'm working on ways of making the clothes cheaper . |
| 3 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 4 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 5 | This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts . |
| 6 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |
| 7 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I also saw poor people as having more sense of community and warmth — as altogether nicer and more ideologically sound ! |
| 10 | He speaks more slowly , leans more eagerly , so as to offer more opportunity to the mimics ; smiles more disarmingly at the result . |