Example sentences of "[verb] more [coord] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 2 | Output was falling , strikes were growing and the only response of the government was to impose more and more controls at home and blame foreign capital and the US in particular for the mess which it had itself created . |
| 3 | He looks more and more |
| 4 | The industry needs more and more MIPS to be able to programme at higher and higher levels . |
| 5 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 6 | Senior officers say more and more criminals are prepared to carry firearms in cash raids . |
| 7 | In the nineteen nineties with the tumbling costs of hardware we can adv afford to provide more and more people in our enterprise-with access to a computer or the information within in . |
| 8 | One example of this is the dinner at the forge , when there are guests , and they all talk about Pip as if he were inferior and Joe almost trying to comfort him , adds more and more gravy to his plate every time they say something negative about him , which is rather a lot . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations need to work more and more in partnership with others . |
| 10 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 11 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 12 | In doing so , they underlined a fact which is likely to attract more and more attention as tankers continue to shift toxins from town to town , country to country : the waste chain is long . |
| 13 | Self-catering holidays in rural France continue to attract more and more converts . |
| 14 | As Peking 's takeover draws closer , analysts expect more and more companies to follow Jardine-Matheson and Hongkong & Shanghai Bank , and move their official bases outside the territory . |
| 15 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 16 | I think people are becoming more and more and it 's not true financial implications here . |
| 17 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 18 | These councils permanently seek more and more money . |
| 19 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |
| 20 | One of the men was passing round a big china bowl into which money was being thrown , and as Sabine watched Marie-Christine began , with raucous and vociferous encouragement from the men , to lift her skirt demurely and reveal more and more of one shapely leg . |
| 21 | Michael Murphy , chief executive of the Western Education Board , the largest in the province , said today : ‘ We are having to replace more and more governors , and my fear is the situation will get worse . |
| 22 | I have found , with growing experience , that many of the great authors ( Elliott , Stapledon , Scott-Watson , Howard , Balfour , Fraser , and Voisin , to name but a few ) yield more and more wisdom at the second and third reading . |
| 23 | As time goes on , the Government envisages more and more hospitals becoming NHS Trusts , with powers to negotiate what services they will provide . |
| 24 | As the lights blinked in the overhead monitors we could see more and more buses were sold out . |
| 25 | Aid agencies are claiming that increasing homelessness in Nottingham is forcing more and more youngsters to turn to begging or even prostitution . |
| 26 | As we read more and more of the encyclopedias Brian became convinced that the best animal for the terrain would be the yak . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | An offshore wind will become progressively stronger the further you are blown out , and as you find you ca n't cope , you 'll spend more and more time in the water , being pushed in a direction you do n't want to go , at an ever increasing speed . |
| 29 | Surely it must be tantamount to neglect of the safety of our railways if we do not spend more and more money on a system which can give early warning . |
| 30 | One of the tests of the success of this training in " picture reading " will be that pupils will gradually spend more and more time looking at the picture , and " reading " it at various levels ( see Box 4 ) . |