Example sentences of "[conj] more a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 2 | ‘ And I am still your maid , ’ McAllister had said gaily to him , but , of course , she was now less and less of a maid and more a member of the family , working side by side with Matey in cheerful equality , living and playing with them in the evening , and when Dr Neil spoke of the wedding day again she said that she must write to her uncle at least , before anything could be arranged , and let him think that she had done so . |
| 3 | However , the cost differential is rapidly diminishing , and as some of these benefits can be obtained simply by the addition of a micro-computer to a spectrophotometer , the choice between spectrophotometer and interferometer is becoming more and more a matter for the individual spectroscopist . |
| 4 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 5 | But whereas rap music is still very much a street-level phenomenon , jazz has become more and more a domain of the white middle classes . |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |