Example sentences of "[verb] more [coord] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the large number of commercial expeditions joining in the hunt for the maritime fur resources of the far East and the North Pacific drew more and more merchants , promyshlenniki and ordinary peasants into those far-flung regions . |
| 2 | Mr Brownlow filled the mind of his adopted son with knowledge , and as he watched the boy grow up , he was reminded more and more of his old friend , Oliver 's father . |
| 3 | But that had been all of thirty years ago , and very quickly these demands had multiplied , absorbing more and more time and energy , so that the moments of evening meditation were soon subsumed into the preoccupations and stresses of an active Christianity . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the past years , Mr. Attorney , you have let more and more of your other work go to outside firms , so that you could concentrate on one particular client . ’ |
| 5 | Major industrial companies are contributing more and more funds to charity — some now belongs to the 1% Club and try to reserve 1% of after-tax earnings for charitable purposes . |
| 6 | Yet these non-Conservative elements — the Liberal Nationals and National Labour — were becoming more and more adjuncts to the Conservative party , and they owed their seats entirely to the willingness of the Conservatives not to oppose them in the constituencies . |
| 7 | I am becoming more and more of who I can be . |
| 8 | Instead the emphasis is on the developing relationships between characters becoming more and more of a genuine community through common loss . |
| 9 | it went into a steady decline , with the air war becoming more and more of a straight contest between the British and the Germans . |
| 10 | An alliance was struck , Teddy is gaining more and more sponsors . |
| 11 | The sprint classic at Dunmore , now worth £10,000 to the winner , has attracted more and more entries from the south . |
| 12 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 13 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 14 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 15 | They gradually demonstrated more and more evidence of a defocusing of attention as the task went on , consistent with the view that although performance was not disrupted by lapses , habituation was leading to a marked drop in arousal level in these subjects . |
| 16 | Retailers have a tendency to be quite selfish people wanting more and more of a product that is selling well , but cancelling an order and telling you to go away and solve your own problems when there 's a product that is n't selling well . |
| 17 | You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ? |
| 18 | In Chapter 1 we analysed power goals in detail ; those individuals whose profiles reflect a persistent theme of power will expend effort and energy in seeking more and more of it . |
| 19 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |
| 20 | It 's hoped the conference will help co-ordinate groups around the country in the battle against a problem which is causing more and more deaths every year . |
| 21 | But the spraying must continue for as long as the temperature remains at freezing point or below , as the energy of the frost must be spent on forming more and more ice outwards . |
| 22 | These slender runners or stems branch profusely forming more and more clumps , which eventually cover the bottom of the tank , producing a ‘ lawn ’ effect . |
| 23 | The logical arable landscape is therefore the prairie and , no matter how much this type of landscape may be deplored , the economics of modern food production are compelling more and more farmers to create it . |
| 24 | He joined a firm of solicitors specializing in show-business contract work , became a partner within five years and thereafter just made more and more money . |
| 25 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 26 | Now what if what happens as N gets bigger and bigger as it 's done more and more |
| 27 | I was , in Robert Pirsig 's immortal phrase , caught in a gumption trap , expending more and more energy in a blind alley of endeavour from which I needed to quietly reverse in temporary resignation . |
| 28 | Not long after the lorry driver left , the water became more and more acid and alarms went off . |
| 29 | It just grew and grew — I related to it more and found that the repertoire became more and more slide , so now the set is about 70% slide . |
| 30 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |