Example sentences of "and more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Year by year the reserve is increasing in size and more sand and silt is washed in . |
| 2 | Previously , regional health authorities were responsible for most consultant appointments , but since April 1991 more and more consultants are being employed directly by trusts . |
| 3 | There were tears , moments of high drama , flashes of comedy and bizarre touches — like opening her husband 's coffin to brush back his hair — and more tears . |
| 4 | I am attracting more and more abundance into my life . |
| 5 | And then he swept on with an account of the several attempts to buy the paper , culminating in MacQuillan offering more money and more guarantees about the way it would be run . |
| 6 | The arch of the sky bore down on her like a chain , and the sounds of the camp returned , the shouts and jokes of the Englishmen , the ceaseless crash of the axe for wood and more wood to build . |
| 7 | Quoting the saying that the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time , Mr Cooper explains that the company is gradually converting more and more document types to electronic processing . |
| 8 | Many had long engaged in the production of cocoons for the silk industry , and as silk production rose dramatically in the interwar years more and more farmers engaged in this by-employment . |
| 9 | The logical arable landscape is therefore the prairie and , no matter how much this type of landscape may be deplored , the economics of modern food production are compelling more and more farmers to create it . |
| 10 | And as the economic constraints push more and more farmers towards the rationalization of their enterprises the proportion of farmers ( and of the countryside ) to whom this applies is likely to increase . |
| 11 | But towards the end of the 17th century , their importance dwindled as more and more farmers turned to heavy horses ; which although more expensive are faster and easier to control . |
| 12 | In more and more instruments , the law of one price is free to apply : close financial substitutes are allowed to be swapped for one another , so trading ( arbitrage , in the argot ) can ensure that they fetch the same price . |
| 13 | More and more instruments took up the melody , drowning out the frail lyric line . |
| 14 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | We 've seen the Sunday Times for example , introducing horoscopes and more articles on the Royal Family . |
| 16 | Third , the large number of commercial expeditions joining in the hunt for the maritime fur resources of the far East and the North Pacific drew more and more merchants , promyshlenniki and ordinary peasants into those far-flung regions . |
| 17 | Detail is added to the block of flats on the right hand side , and more yacht masts and rigging are indicated behind the boats in the middle distance . |
| 18 | At the time of going to press more than 150 fragments of classical statues had been recovered and more finds were being brought up every day . |
| 19 | If this hypothesis is correct — as more and more biologists believe it to be — then it illustrates that symbiosis , co-operation between organisms , is a crucial evolutionary step in nature ; for without it , organisms as complex as plants , animals , and fungi simply would not exist . |
| 20 | More and more Nigerians also take advantage of the price differences to do a nice business smuggling goods across the border into the franc zone . |
| 21 | More and more adults are discovering that ponies can give as much fun ( if not more ) than horses , and can do twice as much for half the price ! |
| 22 | it 's more bits , more bits and more bits to cut . |
| 23 | Like the rose , the sweetpea has become part of the tradition of a an English country garden and more sweetpea seeds are sold than any other flower . |
| 24 | It is becoming busier and faster , with more and more travel , more and more people , and more and more wealth . |
| 25 | With more and more options to choose from , customers and software developers are increasingly reluctant to plump for just one . |
| 26 | She was tired of trying to think , and more sleep would certainly be welcome . |
| 27 | The day went by uneventfully after Tom had left — lunch , another blood glucose test , Faye 's nap , and more painting , punctuated by snacks at carefully planned intervals . |
| 28 | Every year we took more and more plays to court at Christmas . |
| 29 | If he spent less time jetting around on EC business and more solving Britain 's problems , perhaps a lot more people would have jobs , too . |
| 30 | However , little by little , as Aspreys sold more and more of his artefacts , so Ernest bought up more and more land along the cliff and through the village . |