Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 3 | He says Gloucestershire County Council has been given more money . |
| 4 | Since publication , Alan has been given more information on this illustrious unit and has been kept busy updating his files . |
| 5 | THE mercy death doctor has been given more time to consider his future . |
| 6 | TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million . |
| 7 | Trevor Francis has been promised more cash for new players , despite Sheffield Wednesday 's £2m debt . |
| 8 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 9 | Having said that , a major recent trend has been to introduce more competition and the Post Office , for example , increasingly competes in all its operating businesses . |
| 10 | John Jones has been told more money will be available from the first of April and he can expect his knee operation in the next year . |
| 11 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 12 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 13 | It what it tends to do is to encourage more traffic to come into Knaresborough on the main road as opposed to the two secondary roads . |
| 14 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 15 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 16 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 17 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 18 | ‘ What we should be doing is spending more money preparing people for creative leisure , ’ said Robyn . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 20 | The obvious introductions were made , and what ensued was to bring more pleasure to Repton than any job he had ever done — ‘ such a specimen of my art , ’ he wrote of his work at Sheringham , ‘ as I never before had the opportunity of displaying ’ . |
| 21 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 22 | But , he added , it was his view that while a great deal had been achieved more work needs to be done to complete the necessary cultural changes within AEA . |
| 23 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 24 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 25 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 26 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 27 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 28 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 29 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 30 | Anyway , as I have been given more recognition and opportunity to draw to my strengths under your editorship , I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for giving me a ‘ go ’ . |