Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers say an increase in the badger population is leading to more cases of tuberculosis in cattle.In the past three years , cases of bovine TB have doubled in one county alone . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , speculation continues that the Greek collector is looking for more aircraft for his collection and is working hard to return one of his Shacks to airworthy condition and back to the UK ! |
| 3 | The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service is appealling for more people to help them with their meals on wheels service . |
| 4 | Rising incomes and growing demand were pulling in more imports as labour shortages constrained output , threatening the dwindling current-account surplus and placing future growth in doubt . |
| 5 | — The British Trust for Conservation is looking for more volunteers . |
| 6 | Now the firm is looking for more people to share in its success . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 8 | The hospital is asking for more money to clear the backlog . |
| 9 | As a consequence , the report is calling for more attention to the reasons and procedures governing X-rays . |
| 10 | Except the brain is screaming for more dopamine , so you overdose because you ca n't accept that the drug is n't working any longer , and it 's then that cocaine starts doing its other things to you . |
| 11 | — Following the huge success of the last series of Stars In Their Eyes , Granada TV is looking for more people who look and sing like the biggest stars in the business . |
| 12 | Solbourne 's UK representatives include sales and marketing manager Hamish Cassels and the company is looking for more country managers including two each for Germany and France , one for Scandinavia and one for Spain . |
| 13 | Sure enough , after a week or so the boy 's right ankle was responding to more treatment , and the left-leg calf muscles were quivering . |
| 14 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 15 | Sister Clare Lewington , who runs the Royal Free Prostate Laboratory where she helps conduct treatment trials , believes that increasing media coverage of prostate disease is resulting in more self-referrals to her hospital . |
| 16 | Although the business had grown steadily since it was established in 1948 , the owners realised that the market was changing with more consumers buying milk in shops . |