Example sentences of "more and [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the contempt expressed in the past for the American principle of ‘ publish or perish ’ , British universities are more and more looking at volume of publication — otherwise , ‘ performance indicators ’ — as a sign of virtue . |
| 2 | But uncomfortable signs are growing that the uneasy line between discipline and dissent — and often very justified and necessary dissent — is being more and more breached in favour of the former . |
| 3 | This is a sinister view of the world of simulacra and simulation described by Jean Baudrillard , the world in which people have the illusion of being actively hooked into vast information networks , whereas in fact they are only the passive recipients of processed data , more and more isolated in front of their televisions and their computer screens ( 1970:186–91 , 1981:121–31 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ To grow older for a woman is to be more and more wrapped in fog . ’ |
| 5 | It is also a vindication of the lesson Weill , though one of Berlin 's most intellectual musicians , had taken from his mentor : ‘ My teacher Busoni , at the end of his life , hammered into me one basic truth which he had arrived at after 50 years pure aestheticism — the fear of triviality is the greatest handicap for the modern artist , it is the main reason why ‘ modern ’ music got more and more removed from reality . ’ |
| 6 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 7 | If a walk is taken into the higher fastnesses of the glen , as may quite easily be done for several miles , more and more appear in succession ; indeed , there is a through route for walkers , not available to those who have to return to parked cars , all the way to Loch Treig and Corrour Station : a memorable expedition . |
| 8 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 9 | When things go wrong , liability is more and more falling on company directors , with their own personal wealth at stake when they get sued , Neil Fitzgerald reports . |
| 10 | Through the 1930s such quirky turns were more and more discouraged in holiday venues . |
| 11 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 12 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 13 | As sale voucher schemes were extended , the crime was more and more concentrated near district borders . |