Example sentences of "getting more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 'm getting more enjoyment out of . |
| 2 | Q Firstly , can I thank you for always answering my computing problems and secondly , is there any chance of getting more coverage of networks ? |
| 3 | Daily activities come to revolve around getting more drugs for the next dose . |
| 4 | In expansion , erm people were interested in getting bigger schools , getting more teachers , getting more pupils , getting more resources , and on the whole they tended to forget the individuality at the expense of the large numbers . |
| 5 | These days Charlotte Amalie is getting more excitement than it is used to , or wants . |
| 6 | At best it was a good way of getting more work as an extra . |
| 7 | Well it was a system that er was n't liked but it was operated because , in my opinion anyway , because the employers er had seen it as a way of getting more work out of you . |
| 8 | Are you getting more work ? |
| 9 | I joined the scheme because I wanted to extend the criminal scope of my practice and this was one way of getting more contact with the courts and with prospective clients . |
| 10 | ‘ You should try getting more sleep . ’ |
| 11 | Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport |
| 12 | The significance of the anonymity issue for many of the legal experts lies more with their own concern with getting more women to report rape , than with raped women 's own priorities for legal change . |
| 13 | I do not know how this can be avoided except perhaps by getting more things settled at the official level , and when they can not be settled there having the issues presented plainly to ministers . |
| 14 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 15 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 16 | In expansion , erm people were interested in getting bigger schools , getting more teachers , getting more pupils , getting more resources , and on the whole they tended to forget the individuality at the expense of the large numbers . |
| 17 | Getting more slates not so much waste out of them , cos these tables were sawing er them into blocks . |
| 18 | He says they now want to concentrate on getting more venues . |
| 19 | And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity . |
| 20 | Mind you I mean even four months , cos you 'd be getting more money . |
| 21 | But the the regular men were getting more money than but er And then there used to be men down there , storing the slate , regular men on the outside , my father was one of them . |
| 22 | in grant is the basis for their claim that students have never had it so good — that they are getting more money now than ever before . |
| 23 | Ministers can claim until they are blue in the face that students are getting more money and that they have never had it so good , but they can not justify those claims by reference to the facts , which show that students are significantly worse off than they were previously . |
| 24 | Where tenure was for life only , and not by inheritance , where entry fines were not fixed by custom , it was possible for the lord , perfectly legally , to raise these to a level which a possible heir could not pay , not in the expectation of getting more money , but in the certainty that failure to pay would give him the right to evict . |
| 25 | The fact of the matter is , that the police are getting more money , and they do need to er , manage their resources most carefully . |
| 26 | But he , he was getting more money in Bailey 's so he ended up if he went down to the , the he would get two fifty still . |
| 27 | somebody 's got to be getting more money out of it basically |
| 28 | If you 're not happy with what you see in the mirror , maybe you could do with changing your eating habits or getting more exercise . |
| 29 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 30 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |