Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs practise and Jack got the opportunity for more than most . |
| 2 | She was keen to learn , and his trust in her had grown to the point where they alternated the night watches so both had the opportunity for more rest . |
| 3 | ‘ I have done a fair bit of business travelling to meetings in London , ’ said Mr Pilkington , who seizes the opportunity for more practice on train journeys appropriately since BR is sponsoring this year 's Times championship . |
| 4 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 5 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
| 6 | It 's always angled towards the case for more funds to be allocated to reform schools set up for ‘ the salvaging of these youngsters whose natural growth has been marred by bad upbringing , bad companions , bad luck . ’ |
| 7 | This is stressed by Ives et al. ( 1987 ) , who argue the case for more research to obviate the problems associated with the extrapolation of data , often erroneously , from the micro-to the macro-scale within the Himalaya region . |
| 8 | In Stirling this weekend , a pressure group geared to advancing the case for more women to be given key party posts will be set up . |
| 9 | Whoever put in the plea for more info about injuries , reserve and general team gossip should be given an electronic pat on the back . |
| 10 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 11 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 12 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 13 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 14 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 15 | This is at Clarendon College at seven and that 's on Pallam Avenue just off Mansfield Road in Nottingham er contact the college for more information that starts at seven tonight . |
| 16 | Or maybe , the soul that has striven to rise above human weakness is given a brief , or longer , sojourn in some higher , astral sphere — until the effects of such aspirations are outweighed by the desires of the mind for more life experience in this denser , physical world . |
| 17 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 18 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 19 | Needless to say , Jeremy has to keep returning to the darkroom for more film throughout the game . |
| 20 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 21 | Moore did not think it was necessary to ask the lawyer for more details of the ‘ foolish stories ’ . |
| 22 | This further improved their efficiency in the search for more food . |
| 23 | Although McNamara conceded that this might be the case , he insisted that the search for more options in Nato 's strategy should continue . |
| 24 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 25 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 26 | ‘ The campaign for more police for County Durham goes on . |
| 27 | ‘ In a garrison church , ’ Colonel Ross points out , ‘ when the hymn books or the hassocks disintegrate , the chaplain simply writes a chit and indents the ordnance for more . |
| 28 | He took her mouth again , but this time his mouth punished her with sudden erotic savagery and she felt the treacherous swift ache of desire , the longing for more , for all of him , deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 29 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 30 | But we need the funding to stage the kind of programme to make it significant , and to lay the groundwork for more , and longer Glasgay ! s , perhaps every second year . ’ |