Example sentences of "and [verb] more [noun pl] " 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 | The Ministry for Women will have special responsibility for coordinating childcare policy , improving women 's safety and encouraging more women to participate in public life . |
| 3 | In theory , the government was pledged to promote more competition among airlines , with the aim of reducing fares and generating more services . |
| 4 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 5 | A large retail chain may want to expand and build more stores or it may be content with its current size since all the most profitable regions are covered . |
| 6 | Tadpoles grew up and became more frogs . |
| 7 | It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video . |
| 8 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 9 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 10 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 11 | If you wanted to you could work a few more rows of stocking stitch and just put in a single row of holes again , but for our practise piece it is better to carry on and make more holes . |
| 12 | And if that gentleman wants to go off and have and and marry again and raise more children he should still not leave his |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thank you to all Q.T 's who have supported the Draw , particularly those who requested and sold more tickets . |
| 15 | And made more tadpoles . |
| 16 | The creative and talented nation that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution and produced more inventions and patents per head of population than any other country in the world , had turned its back on industry and commerce . |
| 17 | Cleaned out his dinner bowl and eat more biscuits . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , sheep owners like Charlie Huckerby are worried about safety for their animals and fear more attacks could happen . |
| 19 | This would produce local protest and push more responsibilities to the centre , thus increasing government ‘ overload ’ ( Gough , 1979 ; Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | In the more liberal social conditions of the post-emancipation era , the local standard has become more accessible to most of the population , thus strengthening the " continuum " and allowing more speakers to enter its middle and upper ranges . |
| 21 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 22 | The only possible exception within the major world religions is Theravada Buddhism , but even here the concept of Nirvana is all-pervasive and has more features in common with an understanding of " God " than with a Western secular atheist view . |
| 23 | In other words , a wordprocessing package may be developed which is faster , easier to use and has more facilities than existing packages ; however , the basic concepts remaining unchanged ( cf a faster , more fuel-efficient motor car ) . |
| 24 | It 's big , black and has more studs that a biker 's jacket . |
| 25 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 26 | If you 've got a HP LaserJet II printer and want more fonts , what do you do ? |
| 27 | Its aim was to improve safety , comfort , privacy and the quality of facilities in hostels and to encourage more groups with a shared interest , such as wildlife . |
| 28 | And build more houses , more council houses . |
| 29 | He turned north and searched for more openings and found more troops . |
| 30 | Mayor David Dinkins expressed his sadness over the incident and promised more resources to tackle the hundreds of unlicensed clubs thought to be operating in the city , many of which were violating safety regulations . |