Example sentences of "[prep] more and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I tried to stop her but she kept on putting on more and more outside gear .
6 The economists , for example , have insisted on more and more technical emphasis in order to ( as they see it ) equip ‘ their ’ graduates to compete better in the marketplace .
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