Example sentences of "[v-ing] more [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation is changing now as young people with skills are becoming more in demand in the labour market with the falling youth population . |
| 2 | We are not sure why intensive beds are becoming more in demand . ’ |
| 3 | But then the LA influence drips intravenously , via its most celebrated industry , into the rest of the world , which is becoming more like Los Angeles by the minute . |
| 4 | We have true relationships with other people , because we are becoming more like Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | The cynics would have them as some further vehicle for Anthony Wilson 's warped megalomania , but despite ‘ Shall We Take A Trip ’ and its LSD singalong , or the moaning of what sounds like ‘ We Do n't Care ’ in another song , the Factory boss is becoming more like Jonathan King than Malcolm McLaren . |
| 6 | The cynics would have them as some further vehicle for Anthony Wilson 's warped megalomania , but despite ‘ Shall We Take A Trip ’ and its LSD singalong , or the moaning of what sounds like ‘ We Do n't Care ’ in another song , the Factory boss is becoming more like Jonathan King than Malcolm McLaren . |
| 7 | I now find that it 's being invaded by ex-CRASH staff , and the mag is becoming more like Playboy with every issue . |
| 8 | This year , Coda also opened offices in Germany , Hungary , Singapore , Australia , and Hong Kong , and is in the process of opening more in Belgium and Sweden . |
| 9 | The lack of Kingdom emphasis in John is probably explained by the fact that he is writing more in retrospect and possibly to play down false expectations in the contemporary Jewish understanding of the Kingdom . |
| 10 | However as Harvey ( 1969 , p. 449 ) noted , systems concepts , although old , had tended to remain on the fringe of scientific interest acting more as constraints than as subjects for intensive investigation . |
| 11 | ‘ When considering long-term placement we will be looking more at adoption , ’ explained Jane . |
| 12 | She said lightly , ‘ Because you are looking more at ease with me . |
| 13 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 14 | Looking more like rugger forwards , the local Girls line up for ‘ On the Road ’ at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool , 1 112– |
| 15 | The solar challenge is the race to the future … fifty machines looking more like spaceships than cars are on the grid in darwin … ready to roll for 2000 miles … ready to soak up the sun … |
| 16 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 17 | ‘ I wore my first suit , combed my hair flat and tried to look as near Cary Grant as possible , ’ he recalled , ‘ but I came out looking more like Lassie . ’ |
| 18 | It covered 1,429 industrial workers and supervisors in England and Wales who could vary their work effort either through working overtime or by producing more in piece work . |
| 19 | In contrast , the objective of many multilateral treaties ( often approximating more to legislation , or to constitutional instruments ) is universality of adherence . |
| 20 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 21 | Ramsdens Bridge is a swing bridge with a stone keeper 's house which has been badly modified , a red brick porch stuck on the front and a concrete extension to the chimney owing more to utility than aesthetics . |
| 22 | He also became recorder of York , an appointment made on the king 's recommendation but probably owing more to Gloucester . |
| 23 | He also became recorder of York , an appointment made on the king 's recommendation but probably owing more to Gloucester . |
| 24 | It is n't only home-owners owing more in mortgage than their home is now worth who are suffering . |
| 25 | That left the banks paying more for funds , but unable , for a long time , to raise the cost of mortgages to compensate . |
| 26 | Uncashed cheques can be cancelled , but not without your bank or building society making a hefty charge — make sure you 're not paying more in charges than you 'd lose if your cheque was cashed ! |
| 27 | At a more sophisticated level , understanding the broad principles could help you save money , by not paying more in taxation than you need . |
| 28 | Beyond that size , you would be paying more in compensation for the loss of marginal benefit of another inch than you would be saving yourself in reduced cost of the externality . |
| 29 | Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society . |
| 30 | By next year , payroll tax-rates will have risen by 30% since 1978 , and half of all Americans will be paying more in payroll taxes than they do in ( more progressive ) income taxes . |