Example sentences of "people [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 2 | Less red meat is being consumed , but people eat more chicken . |
| 3 | But it is also the case that the financial sector has encouraged people to borrow more money . |
| 4 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 5 | People want more choice unclear |
| 6 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 7 | Reviewing other medical studies of large populations , the authors dispel another myth , that fat people consume more calories than thin people . |
| 8 | Sometimes — often , in fact — in the Western world , people consume more calories than they need to fuel the body with energy . |
| 9 | again , people consume more food . |
| 10 | And then of course you 've got your , I think people made more use of the convalescent club , which we have got . |
| 11 | Erm we 've got a convalescent club for members and I think people made more use of that and then there was a time when I remember er you see , even the death , there was a death grant . |
| 12 | Raymond will accept calls ( 9.00am to 5.00pm local time ) from people wanting more information on where to detect in the Islands . |
| 13 | ‘ The workshop certainly made people feel more part of a team and demonstrated the power of the networking approach . ’ |
| 14 | Despite the openness and tolerance of our company , the possession of too many layers in the organization inevitably reduces the perception of the headroom that exists , and means that people put more effort into internal argument than external achievement . |
| 15 | It is normally found that although hearing people report more words presented to the RVF rather than to the LVF , deaf people show minimal asymmetry for both English words and drawings of signs ( Phippard , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | If people draw more cash from their bank accounts , the banks will have to draw more cash from their balances in the Bank of England . |
| 17 | You know what it costs to run , switch the lights on , you know what it costs to run a conveyor belt for goodness sake , and yet it , and if , if you , if you lose money on , on shifting one parcel , I know if you shift a hundred thousand you might make something , but the chances are high that you wo n't , and , and I mean there are people shifting more parcels than us , I know that , they ca n't make any money out of it . |
| 18 | Academic says we need to encourage people to use more facilities rather than simply looking round the University . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 20 | The main reason is population growth which is causing the people to clear more woodland so they can cultivate the land . |
| 21 | We have just heard the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) dismiss the argument that people pay more income tax and VAT if they are on high incomes . |
| 22 | People produce more profit when they have the best welfare . |
| 23 | PEOPLE become more anti-French the older they get , according to a survey today . |
| 24 | Mr Lang said , in comments to The Scotsman : ‘ The statistics suggest that , with more people achieving more qualifications than ever before , this is the golden age of Scottish education . |
| 25 | Di — who smiled when wellwishers gave her flowers — said people took more notice if someone well-known was involved . |
| 26 | What are the main obstacles in the way of people taking more control over their own health and health care and have we examples of this struggle from which we can all learn ? |
| 27 | Design a poster or leaflet which would encourage people to eat more potatoes . |
| 28 | The scientists concluded that vitamin E was the key factor , so they advise people to eat more fruit and vegetables , cereals and vitamin E-rich vegetable oils . |
| 29 | And erm I think too , some ways of allowing people to have more power over their own lives , and not just being at the mercy of agencies , such as social services and erm |
| 30 | The provision of family allowances , which could have been interpreted ( at least indirectly ) as encouraging people to have more children , hardly commended itself . |