Example sentences of "more and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our supervisors are skilled tradesmen who are being forced more and more into a teaching role without any kind of recompense for it . |
| 2 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 3 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 4 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 5 | He was behaving more and more as an autocrat , The State of emergency inherited form Mossadeq had been lifted only on 1956 . |
| 6 | The first is that of the relationship between theory and practice , about which much has been heard since the Second World War as higher education has been used more and more as an entry route by professions seeking higher status . |
| 7 | Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 9 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 10 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |
| 11 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
| 12 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is Parliament , not the law , which is in danger of looking more and more like an ass . |
| 13 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |