Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 2 | The row has been bubbling since October but China has intensified its attacks since Friday when British governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , decided to publish his plans for more democracy in the territory . |
| 3 | The firm 's new owners say there are no plans for more job cuts and they 're promising increased investment to develop the business . |
| 4 | The prisons have not so far been told what Mr Howard 's plans for more austerity in jail are likely to mean . |
| 5 | MOTOR giant Ford has denied there are plans for more job cuts at the firm 's Halewood plant despite declining car sales . |
| 6 | But a spokesman confirmed today : ‘ There are definitely no plans for more redundancies . ’ |
| 7 | The old Company had paid lavish dividends of about 20 per cent at first , which had led to calls on the shareholders for more capital in the 1690s ; after 1709 the new company paid dividends starting at 8 per cent and declining as the years passed . |
| 8 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 9 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 10 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 11 | Thus , out of the 11 still preferring home care in the action sample nine answered quite specifically in terms of the feasibility of continued home care ( albeit with a wish in some cases for more community services ) . |
| 12 | Their plates were cleared away , and Rafaelo snapped his fingers for more wine . |
| 13 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 14 | preferences for more focused or salient entities as the referents of pronouns and other anaphors ( e.g. Sidner 1979a ; Alshawi 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Hens show marked and lasting preferences for more space than 450 square centimetres . |
| 16 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 17 | The individual 's personal circumstances , the demand for labour in the economy , restrictive practices , the opportunities offered by employers for more work effort , and so on . |
| 18 | Patten rap : China today unleashed a fresh attack on Hong Kong governor Chris Patten , saying his proposals for more democracy in the colony that returns to Peking 's rule in 1997 can never be accepted . |
| 19 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 20 | His suggestions included requests for more towels on Sundays , coconut mats for the worst tees ( ‘ as used on other courses ’ ) , for the sand boxes ( used for making tee pegs ) to have small holes bored in them to let rainwater drain away . |
| 21 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 22 | The Labour spokesman called for a quick decision on RUC requests for more manpower and Mr Brooke replied that he expected to make an announcement very soon . |
| 23 | Offers of help or requests for more information should be sent to . |
| 24 | I am not fed-up , making veiled requests for more money , but simply trying to determine my own future while happy to be part of the news division . |
| 25 | With stories from Millbank , ICI Paints and Kodak Limited , we are also responding to readers ' requests for more information on other parts of ICI and on other companies . |
| 26 | See Profiles for more details . |
| 27 | Giles Shaw , Britain 's junior minister , joined American calls for more research and played down acidification as ‘ a problem of great complexity ’ affecting ‘ certain limited areas of the world ’ . |
| 28 | Her case was heard by a special committee set up by the DoH , following calls for more openness in the NHS . |
| 29 | There 's been anger and despair in the town over this latest example of violent crime , and increased calls for more police to bring the Gloucestershire force up to strength . |
| 30 | Hundreds of parents in the county have back calls for more education spending . |