Example sentences of "they [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay more eggs than European owls : the mean clutch size in Malaysia is 6.6 compared with around 5.5 in Europe ; and while Europeans lay only one clutch each year , the Malayan barn owls reproduce twice or even three times a year . |
| 2 | ‘ They gain more experience by tackling the job themselves . ’ |
| 3 | They gain more fulfilment from the jobs and in the end , backed by a high level of innovation , they produce a better product . |
| 4 | Oh they do yes , well because nowadays , because they got more men on each job now than they really want . |
| 5 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 6 | That 's when you know they got more crime committed round and Valley then , cos there was a lot more kids up there . |
| 7 | They got more votes than Labour in the county elections , but they won fewer seats . |
| 8 | They bring more drink . |
| 9 | So they sell more papers on Saturday . |
| 10 | But when they reached the implementation stage , in which their orientation was to concrete tasks and the skills required of them were chiefly technical , then they became more directive and used client participation less . |
| 11 | There are instances of change in diet related to habitat : tawny owls living in wooded areas eat more moles and fewer birds , whereas in more open areas they eat more voles and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 12 | They do n't l they want more light . |
| 13 | John quickly became intimate friends with Mr Huddlestone , the general manager of the Winter Gardens complex , and together they produced more scenes and numbers during the summer season and well into the autumn . |
| 14 | Most commonly they requested more help with social security benefits . |
| 15 | ‘ If they make more money in Germany , say , than they do at home , they will need to reinvest more there , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Some people like prison because they make more friends in there . |
| 17 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 18 | They make more business trips . |
| 19 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 20 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 21 | They want more rules and regulations and more Government interference . |
| 22 | They want more reports . |
| 23 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 24 | They say that they 're fed up of cuts … they want more money for education and social services . |
| 25 | Lisa Power , HIV officer for the Association of London Authorities reveals SSDs have to produce a separate supporting statement if they want more money for growth . |
| 26 | He says they want more consultants to increase the work they do . |
| 27 | I would certainly advise anybody to look at the policy , and if they want more cover speak to the dealer that they bought the vehicle from , because it may well be that they could have erm a much , much greater cover which is of more value to them . |
| 28 | be because leaders want power and they get power and so they want more power . |
| 29 | For Labour they want more people employed and that 's to the detriment of taxes and inflation . |
| 30 | But they want more plastic to be recycled . |