Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going .
32 Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose .
33 It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana .
34 They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed .
35 He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ .
36 He acknowledged that ‘ the war is now moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ‘ ideals ’ ' .
37 As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision .
38 From the moment Ezra left the Anglo-Saxon world he began to suffer more and more from the isolation of his intellectual exile .
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