Example sentences of "more and [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove any dry outer leaves , cut off the top third or more and lightly bruise the fleshy base . |
| 2 | from this then I think that in fact the they would be more and more involved the more sort of radical they 're going |
| 3 | Instead , González came more and more to personify the new wave of 1980s socialism with the social largely left out . |
| 4 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 5 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
| 6 | The traditional music of the villages continued much as before , but less Zambian music was produced in the towns , where young musicians tended more and more to copy the popular music of Britain , the United States and Zaire . |