Example sentences of "more and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It can also happen due to build-up of tolerance , when you need more and more of a drug to get the same effect . |
2 | At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn . |
3 | But with the spiralling expense of Christmas , crackers are coming to be regarded as more and more of a luxury . |
4 | And as Kemf witnesses more and more of the damage and the recovery for herself , she becomes closer to the Vietnamese friends who help her with her project , most particularly to Vietnam 's most eminent environmentalist , Vo Quy . |
5 | Indeed their centralising hand is increasingly obvious as more and more of the state machinery appears to public view through what one senior member of the DES himself described as a ‘ snowstorm of circulars and an avalanche of administrative memoranda ’ . |
6 | Such a scenario implies that you ‘ forget ’ more and more of the future and ‘ predict ’ the past much better . |
7 | The kind of society we live in — broadly the industrial capitalism which is being embraced by more and more of the world — is making us prone to the alienation and isolation on which madness feeds . |
8 | ‘ Clearly there is an opportunity for us to grow in Europe as more and more of the automobile is made from plastic and we can pick up a fairly good part of the business ’ , Hobor said . |
9 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
10 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
11 | And the answers to those questions will in turn beg further questions , as we apprehend more and more of the situation ( see 5.2 , 5.5.2 ) . |
12 | I shall not enter into a detailed discussion of this Labour government , its programme and effects , but it should be noted that over the years to 1951 , as more and more of the party 's electoral pledges were realised , there occurred what is often interpreted as a ‘ weakening of commitment ’ of both party and people to ‘ socialism ’ , and a progressive exhaustion of the political impetus for social and economic change . |
13 | It 's likely in consequence to become more and more of an irrelevance , and that seems to me profoundly sad — especially given the examples it was established to uphold . |
14 | Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it . |
15 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |