Example sentences of "be [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than concentrating almost exclusively on the training of direct service practitioners , they should probably be devoting more resources to training professional personnel who will function in indirect service roles , directing , co-ordinating and supervising the work of paraprofessional personnel and providing appropriate in-service training for them . |
| 2 | The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime . |
| 3 | His main contribution to the development of the south Wales coalfield was his construction of a masonry dock at Cardiff ; opened in 1839 , it was the first of the five Bute docks , docks which would in the late nineteenth century be handling more coal than any other port in the world . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you 'll be gathering more snowdrops . |
| 5 | With the growing concern with debt problems , and the difficulties of dealing with new forms of over-borrowing and multiple debt , the credit industry appears to be accepting more responsibility for encouraging and funding money advice services . |
| 6 | Pupils themselves should be given more responsibility , and their non-academic achievements should be given more recognition . |
| 7 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 8 | Both expansions of the European Economic Community led to the central institutions of the Community arguing successfully that , for the enlargement to function , they must be given more powers and the Community ‘ s political union must be strengthened . |
| 9 | In this way , the institution would be given more flexibility but at the same time would have to live with any mistakes it might make . |
| 10 | He emphasised that the European Parliament should be given more teeth to ensure value for money and for scrutinising how the Commission spends taxpayers ' money . |
| 11 | So there 's no reason why these people should be given more votes rather their superior status can be recognized by giving them more informal influence . |
| 12 | The company may be given more time in which to submit its return under s 118(2) , TMA 1970 , but this must be agreed with the inspector . |
| 13 | In a meeting in Washington with International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus , Menem asked for Argentina to be given more time to make debt repayments to the Fund . |
| 14 | The Cabinet will meet again on April 30 after the Easter break to be given more details of the contents of the Queen 's Speech . |
| 15 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 16 | I think it really needs to be the whole photograph needs to be given more strength on making more of this post here . |
| 17 | Pupils themselves should be given more responsibility , and their non-academic achievements should be given more recognition . |
| 18 | It is a readable account of the conflicts and policies of the early 1980s , and puts forward a strong case for local government to be given more power . |
| 19 | They also express the hope that the citizenship record of school pupils could be given more weight by universities and other institutions of higher education when admitting students , and this could be facilitated by the inclusion in UCCA and PCAS forms of a standard section in which a reference to community involvement could be included . |
| 20 | Is a specialist required or should general potential be given more weight ? |
| 21 | If the aim of palaeoclimate modelling is to ‘ recreate ’ past climates , the geological evidence must be given more weight than it is now . |
| 22 | Some naturalists argued that all characters should be taken into account when determining relationships , but others claimed that some characters were more fundamental than others and should thus be given more weight . |
| 23 | Now WFP insists the consumer 's views must be given more weight . |
| 24 | Whilst we should be sceptical of rhetorical strategies adopted for tactical reasons , the opinions of prominent Tories expressed at the time of the Revolution itself deserve to be given more weight . |
| 25 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 26 | So that I feel that one of the things that we must do is ensure that all people who are now training to be teachers , and those who already in the service , have got to be given more information about the condition so that they may be able to recognise it . |
| 27 | Filling in more detail on the Environment Protection Bill for the coming session of Parliament , Mr Patten said the public would be given more access than ever before to information about industrial pollution and about how individual firms would be obliged to clean up their operations . |
| 28 | ‘ We should be encouraging more shoppers into the town not luring them to the edges . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 30 | Most experts agree we should all be eating more fish , especially oily fish like Alaska canned salmon |