Example sentences of "for [v-ing] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 2 | The phenomenon was first detected at the Bugey-3 reactor in France in September 1991 , but Greenpeace criticises the state electricity company , Electricité de France ( EDF ) , for devoting more attention to rectifying problems as they occur than to examining the causes . |
| 3 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 4 | These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers , but for blocking the entire application . |
| 5 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |
| 6 | subordinates ask for delegated powers or demonstrate potential for acquiring more responsibility |
| 7 | First , there was the simple fact of depopulation which diminished the general size of the market and the level of demand for indigenous manufactures , and no doubt thereby arrested the economic development of the whole region ; second , the depopulation affected agriculture , reducing some previous food exporting regions to starvation levels by the nineteenth century ; third , African production of cloth , metalware and other handicrafts was severely affected , not only by the loss of so many of its producers , but also by the fact that in return the slave traders penetrated the markets of the coast and hinterland with European cotton and manufactured goods ; and fourth , as the demand for slaves multiplied and as many African kings and merchants became even more dependent on European trade , war raids for the capture of potential slaves from neighbouring societies became even more frequent , injecting political instability , consuming precious economic resources , and creating a vicious spiral in which rival kingdoms became ever more dependent on the slave trade to acquire the fire arms necessary for capturing more slaves and in turn defending their slaves against slave-hunting raids from neighbouring kingdoms ( Rodney , 1972 , pp. 104–23 ; Davidson , 1974 , pp. 206 — 10 ; Inikoria , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ The merger provides the potential for developing more business than we would have achieved separately and I am confident that we have the basis for a successful future . |
| 9 | The merger will , therefore , Eyre explained , produce a wider portfolio of environmental services for the customers , and provide the potential for developing more business than the teams would have achieved separately . |
| 10 | I 've just broken the record for writing more books than any English author has ever done . |
| 11 | Organisations ' reasons for wanting more women |
| 12 | This technique has probably been responsible for scoring more points than any other in the entire history of karate competition . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , the Compton Report recommended the establishment of central machinery for securing more movement of lawyers between departments . |
| 14 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
| 15 | There are the obvious slots for plugging in more circuit boards , sometimes as many as eight ; there are sockets for adding more main memory , sockets for adding more video memory , and a socket for co-processor to help with complicated maths ; and there are bays next to the disk drive lying vacant waiting for CD-ROM drives , bigger hard disks or whatever . |
| 16 | The lower ones were improving storm sewer overflows and treating sewage even better , so there was less there was less enthusiasm for paying more money to improve sewage treatment works . |
| 17 | I sincerely hope that the hon. Gentleman would pay tribute to the Ministry of Defence for owning more sites of special scientific interest than anyone other than the national parks . |
| 18 | It was said , even within the confines of the Politburo itself , that he was responsible for sending more people to their deaths in the Siberian concentration camps than any other KGB officer in living memory . |
| 19 | The Getty has often been criticised for having more money than sense . |
| 20 | One of the most difficult but necessary jobs for any Government — and for any Prime Minister — is therefore to say ‘ no ’ to some of the many bright ideas that come forward for spending more money . |
| 21 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 22 | ( This is one reason for giving more attention to economic movements and social structure than our predecessors would have done . ) |
| 23 | There would also be less time available for running more batch processes . |
| 24 | There are so few positions available to us above grade C it seems unfair that we are being penalised for taking more responsibility for less remuneration . |
| 25 | The current government and Jean-Pierre Brulé , the sacked head of Cii-Honeywell Bull , blame Saint Gobain , the firm 's controlling shareholder , for taking more money out of the company than it put in . |
| 26 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
| 27 | But you know , the these people ha have hardly been treated erm and a , a contract for obtaining more health care year by year so , you know if yo , if you 're saying that erm these wi will will reduce or that the action has already taken place , it ca n't reduce erm so , then again it 's , it 's not really relevant to erm the proposal of running a , a health authority , you know , these people should talk . |
| 28 | There is a case , however , for putting more emphasis on studies where the participating subjects have the destiny of the task performance in their own hands rather than sharing it , in some little-understood manner , with an unfamiliar adult . |
| 29 | The factory fills up with more and more of these rogue machines , each churning out rogue blueprints for making more machines that will make more of themselves . |
| 30 | In a Parliamentary reply I said : ‘ The Government have no plans to change the present system of financing the National Health Service largely from taxation and will continue to review the scope for introducing more cost consciousness and consumer choice and for increasing private provision which is already expanding . ’ |