Example sentences of "of [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 2 | Of course , it is n't just a question of using more spices , but of knowing how to blend them . |
| 3 | Billions of dollars of commercial mortgages have been securitised ( ie , bundled up to back tradable bonds that are sold to investors ) ; real-estate investment trusts ( a tax-favoured property-investment vehicle ) are booming ; and other ways of encouraging more investors to own small parts of big buildings are being explored . |
| 4 | A new logo will be unveiled , and tourism marketing experts will look at ways of encouraging more Americans to see what Scotland has to offer . |
| 5 | We think that one way of encouraging more women 's participation is to increase the number of women coaches , and therefore provide girls with more positive role models . |
| 6 | PEPs , which were introduced in 1987 as a means of encouraging more people to invest in stocks and shares , are now considered to represent an important part of a balanced savings portfolio , with over 2 million people having now bought one . |
| 7 | The workshop was free for visitors , part of the festival organisers ' aim of encouraging more people to take an interest in dance . |
| 8 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 9 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 10 | You 're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads . |
| 11 | Any lingering hopes of bringing more children out of Germany were finally stifled by a Home Office ruling that refugees from enemy territories would no longer be allowed entry under any circumstances . |
| 12 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 13 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 14 | From the first he would often stay behind ‘ after hours ’ , telling his mates he ‘ just wanted to finish this run ’ because he knew the machines were capable of producing more material than they were currently achieving . |
| 15 | But it is a way of stimulating more interest in himself . ’ |
| 16 | However , the Club continued to spend money on itself , including extensive tree planting , true as ever to its traditional means of acquiring more members through an attractive club and course . |
| 17 | Thus during the first half of this first term , students begin to develop their work as collectors and presenters of story and poetry material , and of becoming more expert in children 's fiction of every kind . |
| 18 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 19 | Nutritionists have long extolled the virtues of incorporating more rice in our Western diets , and as well as being so healthy , cooking with Tilda Basmati Rice could n't be simpler . |
| 20 | Reliable data on the staffing consequences of these factors do not exist , and the committee recommends that research should be undertaken to quantify them , especially the effects of changing skill mix , the cost implications of employing more doctors , and the extent to which doctors are abandoning medical careers . |
| 21 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 22 | In my view , such bras are capable of causing more damage by trapping breast tissue between the rib cage and the incoming blow . |
| 23 | Turbocharging is one way of pushing more air into an engine , thus allowing more fuel to be burnt and more power developed . |
| 24 | AMBULANCE managers are rethinking the way they deal with emergency patients in the hope of saving more lives . |
| 25 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 26 | Consequently , males are capable of fathering more progeny than females can bear and rear : in current terminology ( Trivers , 1972 ) they invest less heavily in their offspring than females . |
| 27 | Le Tissier , thinking over a four-year contract , added : ‘ It is not matter of wanting more money . |
| 28 | Both they and Saracens had hard-fought draws in one of their pool matches but go through by virtue of scoring more tries . |
| 29 | Instead [ she will ] use the word ‘ participant ’ , and ‘ include data about myself in the research , as one of the participants ’ , as if equality between subjects and psychologists was simply a matter of presenting more data and using more liberal words ( 1986 : 29 ) . |
| 30 | Yeah , well if we had , if we had of had more time we could 've , like , written each individual room but really I just put the numbers down quickly just to , to demonstrate |