Example sentences of "more and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 2 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 3 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 4 | Legislation has shifted more and more into the federal domain , which was not what the authors of the constitution intended . |
| 5 | Subsequently , Miss Picon inclined more and more to the legitimate theatre , both on Broadway and on tour . |
| 6 | 2 But since the rise of structuralism in the sixties Marxist criticism has been more and more on the defensive . |
| 7 | After this the folk of Nagarythe became ever more desperate , relying more and more on the blackest of sorceries for their defence . |
| 8 | I had found myself reacting more and more against the linguistic/logical positivist approach ; and , shortly after its appearance in 1936 , I had written a sustained diatribe against A. J. Ayer 's Language , Truth and Logic ( 1936 ) . |
| 9 | There were , of course , adequate Customs shore controls at ports visited , but we were mainly concerned with the more remote areas and anchorages which tended to be used more and more by the various types of oil exploration craft and drilling rigs when sheltering inside our territorial waters . |
| 10 | With some of the best printed T-shirts to emerge this year , expect to see the Mooks lightbulb devil logo more and more in the coming months . |