Example sentences of "and [vb base] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to work hard to promote membership of the Society , increase participation and recruit more teachers ' these will be the underlying objectives although the prime one will be the enjoyment and increased knowledge of our members . |
| 2 | This will bring the benefits of home ownership within the reach of more people and introduce more diversity in local authority estates . |
| 3 | The passive version can get rid of all the theys and introduce more variety in subject position : |
| 4 | It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video . |
| 5 | ‘ As it 's featured on the château label , the legend could be used to attract visitors , and sell more wine . ’ |
| 6 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 7 | So even if they made a little , if they 've got the glass cutter , made a little round hole then reached , still could n't get the window open they 'd be forced to break the whole lot and make more noise . |
| 8 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |
| 9 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 10 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
| 11 | Nature conservation is not a primary policy aim in these Parks but it tends to follow as a secondary consideration from the primary aims which are to conserve the social and cultural heritage of the Region , improve employment and make more use of the Region for recreation and education . |
| 12 | For the deaf and aphasic , they will need to employ pen and paper in addition to speech , and make more use of bodily and facial cues than might otherwise be necessary . |
| 13 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 14 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 15 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 16 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 17 | You can visit Earth again soon , and bring more people to the Moon colony . |
| 18 | I 've set up my own production company now to harness the talent that 's in the city and bring more media business to Birmingham . |
| 19 | And if that gentleman wants to go off and have and and marry again and raise more children he should still not leave his |
| 20 | By arranging to protect and feed the young of shellfish , for example , the commercial breeder can cut the normally high mortality rate quite dramatically and raise more juveniles to become adults than could ever occur in nature . |
| 21 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |
| 22 | Cleaned out his dinner bowl and eat more biscuits . |
| 23 | Consequently , some horses will go down in the paddock and eat more grass , others will walk or canter up and down the fence endlessly expecting their food , while others will call , ‘ I want my dinner ! ’ , or strike at their stable doors , or paw at the fencing . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , sheep owners like Charlie Huckerby are worried about safety for their animals and fear more attacks could happen . |
| 25 | This would produce local protest and push more responsibilities to the centre , thus increasing government ‘ overload ’ ( Gough , 1979 ; Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | The best that can be hoped is that the Senate and the House will agree on amendments to the law which will remove the gimmicks and inject more discipline into the process . |
| 27 | And the first thing they do th they go to the wo er er bo the boss of the firm where they work for and want more money ! |
| 28 | If you 've got a HP LaserJet II printer and want more fonts , what do you do ? |
| 29 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |
| 30 | Such workers are expensive and in short supply , can not be managed by the old " command and control " hierarchies , and expect more scope for creativity and autonomy in their work . |