Example sentences of "more [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the points in discussion were that there should be more opportunity for visitors to visit smaller areas outside the cities and main towns . |
| 2 | In recent years the amateur actor has had more opportunity for classes in theatre work , including voice and movement training as well as performance and directing skills . |
| 3 | More liability for officers of companies |
| 4 | Mr Leigh wants more protection for footpaths and bridleways . |
| 5 | Whoever put in the plea for more info about injuries , reserve and general team gossip should be given an electronic pat on the back . |
| 6 | Q Firstly , can I thank you for always answering my computing problems and secondly , is there any chance of getting more coverage of networks ? |
| 7 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 8 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 9 | Any more luck with jobs ? |
| 10 | She said she wanted more freedom for licensees to decide their opening hours , and believed children would learn about alcohol by going into pubs with their parents . |
| 11 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 12 | Calls from the floor for a re-introduction of travel assistance for staff and more provision of facilities for the disabled were dexterously handled , as were queries over the treatment of extraordinary and exceptional items , valuation of properties and directors ' remuneration which Sir Lewis said had been put up in line with the rises awarded to employees . |
| 13 | There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) . |
| 14 | Paper mills in Britain which are breaking the law by discharging more effluent into rivers than permitted are nearly all escaping prosecution , according to a report published by the Women 's Environmental Network , an independent pressure group . |
| 15 | More experience for umpires by way of preparation ? |
| 16 | Afterwards Leith could not help wondering if perhaps , with more experience of men , she might not have handled it better . |
| 17 | There was evidence that pupils had more experience with skills than with work which might probe their understanding . |
| 18 | As was reported in Update 2 ( November 1988 ) , this transfer of quality assurance by the appointment of External Course Assessors and retention of control of course content by SCOTVEC is in line with the Council 's policy of gradually devolving more responsibility to colleges . |
| 19 | Labour makes promises : a new council house building programme , more money for community care , more money for roads and pavements , more for teachers , better schools , extra equipment , new capital expenditure , leisure centres and sports facilities — and all of this to be funded without a general increase in taxation . |
| 20 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 21 | they 're not putting money into delegated budgets now , I , I , I was a teacher , a head teacher and I was told that the erm , the essential , the educational departments finding more money for devices and to give advice to school , now , they 're all unnecessary as it is , I would say , we are the ones that carry out the job , we 're on the ground , we 've got to do it . |
| 22 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 23 | Chairman Peter Swales insists there is no more money for signings — but City made nearly a million in the last financial year and gambling now could mean the difference between success and failure . |
| 24 | Debacles elsewhere pushed more money into utilities , which are believed to benefit from low interest rates , at least in the short term . |
| 25 | American supermarkets have hit back by cutting many of their prices and printing more money off coupons . |
| 26 | Will the Minister offer the House any justification for the provision of more money to schools in Hampshire because they happen to serve the current dogma of the present Government ? |
| 27 | Now we 'll here very quickly from people who say that we 've devolved more money to schools . |
| 28 | The trouble is , we 've been having to spend more money on bribes lately . |
| 29 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |
| 30 | By the summer of 1339 Edward was overdue on many of his commitments and had paid the emperor barely a tenth of the sum agreed ; with disillusioned and now unenthusiastic allies , he only succeeded in spending yet more money on campaigns to no avail , first in the Low Countries , then in Cambrésis and Vermandois . |