Example sentences of "[verb] more [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 2 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 3 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 4 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 5 | He was very like Hannah in his attitude and manner — very genteel — and I 've noticed that as she grows older she looks more and more like him . |
| 6 | IT looks more and more as though Euro Disney has goofed with its theme park outside Paris . |
| 7 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 8 | Every time that phone rings the future of this school looks more and more shaky . |
| 9 | In the Soviet Union it is officially acknowledged that government needs more and more highly qualified personnel and an increasingly professionalized state administration . |
| 10 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 11 | She felt him quiver with pleasure at her tentative touch , so concentrated with a single-minded fervour on trying to give him as much provocative excitement as he was giving her , striving always to find more and more sensitive places . |
| 12 | As the Abraham narrative wends its way through these and other events , the birth of the son of the promise is made to appear more and more unlikely . |
| 13 | After considerable dithering , he has pledged his life and his future to that belief , and now the validity of his belief has begun to appear more and more questionable . |
| 14 | And that 's happening more and more . |
| 15 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 16 | Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females . |
| 17 | It 's claimed more and more young people are turning to prostitution and begging on the streets of Nottingham as homelessness continues to increase . |
| 18 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 19 | As we perceive more and more this equal spirit in all things , we pass into that equality of the spirit ; as we dwell more and more in this universal spirit , we become universal beings ; as we grow more and more aware of this eternal , we put on our eternity and are for ever . |
| 20 | I drink because I want to suffer more and more . ’ |
| 21 | From the moment Ezra left the Anglo-Saxon world he began to suffer more and more from the isolation of his intellectual exile . |
| 22 | One group , like spoiled children , refuses to face reality , and wants more and more . |
| 23 | Rainbow drinks it in , wants more and more . |
| 24 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 25 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 26 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 27 | The rhetoric of most Third World governments and radical researchers on the damage done by FDI in general and specific TNCs in particular , seems at odds with the almost universal scramble of these same Third World governments advised by ( in some cases ) the same radical researchers to create policies to attract more and more FDI into their countries . |
| 28 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 29 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 30 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |