Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more convincing sign of confidence would be a decision to let more soldiers come home from the front . |
| 2 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 3 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 4 | It sometimes proves worth while to tack towards one side of a course to get more wind . |
| 5 | If seismic mapping of the new reservoir can be completed in time , BP may send a rig to drill more wells there this summer to establish the production potential for the field , which is thought to have reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels . |
| 6 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 7 | A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved . |
| 8 | He poured some water into the bowl and brought a saucepan containing more water to the table . |
| 9 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 10 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 11 | With a speed smacking more of the arsonist than the Girl Guide , Anya 's got a fire going . |
| 12 | ‘ Yet , ’ Moreau was saying , ‘ I suppose you could say a soldier has more need of a religious faith than most . |
| 13 | Sky are spending £5 million this month on a lavish advertising campaign in a bid to sell more dishes and win more armchair fans . |
| 14 | HOSPITAL fund raisers have hit back at claims that they were staging a begging plea in a bid to find more cash . |
| 15 | The Church of England has set up a working party to investigate the possibility of placing advertisements on radio and television in a bid to attract more people to the Church . |
| 16 | Last year the society 's committee made a decision to relaunch in a bid to attract more members and introduce a more entertaining programme . |
| 17 | In a bid to attract more dogs for its Monday night permit meetings Sunderland will be paying £3 appearance money plus prize money of between £15 and £25 a race , with no entry fees for trainers . |
| 18 | New pond : Volunteers have created a pond on the banks of the Tees at The Holmes , Thornaby , in a bid to attract more wildlife to the area , in a Cleveland County Council , British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and Wildlife Trust partnership . |
| 19 | Person E Asks a question to elicit more information |
| 20 | In England a divorce costs more money than you can dream of . |
| 21 | A proposal to build more barracks was rejected by Parliament in 1739 on the grounds that ‘ the people of this kingdom have been taught to associate the idea of barracks and slavery ’ . |
| 22 | For example , advertising may support a campaign to drink more lager with an in-pub promotion organized by the public relations team — or a health education advertising campaign aimed at children may be supported by a public relations programme of activities in schools . |
| 23 | Fourteen cities are taking part in a campaign to attract more tourists . |
| 24 | These are likely to range from an amendment to our current equal opportunities policy document ( correcting the omission of ‘ disability ’ ) to a need to employ more staff , possibly from another discipline such as health . |
| 25 | With devolution there would be a need to provide more services one provided by East Hampshire . |
| 26 | This technique produced a great deal of interesting material , but I still felt a need to achieve more insight into the language behaviour of my informants — especially outside school . |
| 27 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 28 | A shelf allows more food to be cooked at the same time , though the cooking times will be longer . |
| 29 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 30 | Similarly the overall scheme does set constraints against which some local initiatives ( a desire to incorporate more fieldwork into the regular term , for example ) battle in vain . |