Example sentences of "more and [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals . |
| 2 | Nobody suffered more than Hignett — looking more and more a Premier League thoroughbred , despite only six games in the top flight following his £500,000 transfer last month . |
| 3 | The stoical attitude of philosophical resignation replaced the old Roman polytheism which had become more and more a meaningless formality . |
| 4 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
| 5 | The Black Country in its early days was still country , ‘ a countryside in course of becoming industrialised ; more and more a strung-out web of iron-working villages , market towns next door to collieries , heaths and wastes gradually and very slowly being covered by the cottages of nailers and other persons carrying on industrial occupations in rural surroundings ’ . |
| 6 | And our ideas about the energy crisis also seem to have been borne out — with enough new oil reserves discovered to allay fears of imminent exhaustion and with the nuclear energy debate becoming more and more an ideological issue . |