Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 2 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 3 | Since the end of the last war more and more of our food has been subjected to factory processing , with the concomitant addition of more and more chemical additives to counteract the deterioration in taste , texture , colour and palatability which the processing of food brings about . |
| 4 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 5 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 6 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 7 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
| 8 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 9 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 10 | The researchers demonstrated that there is a physiological plasma/milk barrier against fluoride which protects the infant from more than extremely low concentrations of the halogen . |
| 11 | So two satisfied customers then … vegetarianism at this school looks set to be the dish of the day for more than just National Vegetarian Week . |
| 12 | Mastery of that code by distant descendants could therefore become more ‘ mindless ’ in the early stages ( even those involving significant structure ) as brains were shaped by natural selection for more and more rapid language acquisition . |
| 13 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 14 | In this way a process of evolution was started that led to the development of more and more complicated , self-reproducing organisms . |
| 15 | The development of the relationship depended on shared secrets , on entrusting the other person with more and more important parts of yourself . |
| 16 | Today in order to meet the burgeoning demand for more and more creamy pints of Guinness , St. James 's Gate , through the recent investment of IR£200 million , has become one of the world 's most technologically advanced breweries , having the flexibility to brew virtually anything to the highest international standards . |
| 17 | The second possibility , that there is an infinite sequence of more and more refined theories , is in agreement with all our experience so far . |
| 18 | Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 19 | Eventually adults become members of more and more dyadic , small and large group communication systems . |
| 20 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 21 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 22 | Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative . |
| 23 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 24 | What was barely tolerable before 1914 became increasingly intolerable to the mass of the population , as the enemy forces pushed the Tsarist regime into more and more desperate expedients to raise the finance and manpower with which to conduct the war . |