Example sentences of "they [verb] for more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called for more maple syrup and more butter . |
| 2 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 3 | They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives . |
| 4 | You have to pour the custard on , and the they ask for more custard so you pour more custard on and you could just leave it . |
| 5 | They looked for more drugs , but they found nothing . |
| 6 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 7 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | They call for more research on the physiological and immunological changes caused by eating disorders , especially bulimia . |