Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] more [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 2 | Thus and more wrote the late much travelled T W Perkins in ‘ The Railway Magazine ’ about the Bishop 's Castle Railway after its closure on 25 April 1935 . |
| 3 | Melissa was becoming more and more irritated at the constant references to Bonard . |
| 4 | She went through as her father bid her : hating , every day more and more hating the show she was , the part she had to take up , the curio she had become , beached on the suffocating shore of the Fish . |
| 5 | Despite the contempt expressed in the past for the American principle of ‘ publish or perish ’ , British universities are more and more looking at volume of publication — otherwise , ‘ performance indicators ’ — as a sign of virtue . |
| 6 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 7 | Where blood was shed , the secular courts of the land came more and more to take an interest . |
| 8 | ‘ More and more come down to learn to surf and , more noticeably , there are a lot of boogie boarders in the water . |
| 9 | Mary is becoming more and more detached from any real awareness of the outside world . |
| 10 | After Joyce … it seems that we are more and more moving towards an age of fiction in which … invention and imagination may finally become the subject of the book . |
| 11 | So it 's going to be more and more moving into the real area as opposed to our fantasies about what the world 's like at this particular moment . |
| 12 | Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered . |
| 13 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 14 | It was love at first sight for me and Danielle , and as the weeks went by I became more and more besotted . |
| 15 | The pomeshchiks became more and more absorbed in their farms , and as these grew in size , military service for a minimal salary became less and less attractive . |
| 16 | Yet slowly , as she worked , became more and more absorbed in what she was doing , the memories faded . |
| 17 | And it is a growth industry because its products , such as plastics , are being used more and more to replace raw materials such as wood , steel or natural fibres . |
| 18 | Large practices are more and more expecting their solicitors to do their own advocacy , and not instruct counsel . |
| 19 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 21 | Backed by the Emperor , Haussmann planned to bring fresh water to supply fountains and reservoirs by means of aqueducts , in preference to the use of the Seine which was itself becoming more and more contaminated . |
| 22 | In the years after 1369 the king more and more sought the company of his privata familia , a small group of his personal followers , some of whom were suspected , perhaps rightly , of using their position to enrich themselves . |
| 23 | Marx believed he could observe the process of polarization in nineteenth-century Britain when he wrote ‘ Society as a whole is more and more splitting into two great hostile camps … bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ . |
| 24 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | It seems to me , from a number of recent papers ( and from common sense ) that the rare event is becoming more and more recognised as an important agent of recent sedimentation . |
| 26 | But nevertheless I had seen the Cabinet agenda getting more and more overflowing and , therefore , Cabinet decisions had to be taken quickly . |
| 27 | Some were of servile status and others free , although with the passage of time more and more secured their freedom ( Ch.4 ) , some might occupy barely enough land to sustain themselves and their families , while others accumulated substantial farms and became themselves employers of labour . |
| 28 | And more and more said Marx , society 's splitting into these two groups . |
| 29 | Norman got more and more lost in black music when he was a member of The Housemartins . |
| 30 | As the surface of the water advances towards you the colours of the sky will be more and more affected by the colour of the water itself , until finally below you will be a dark combination of the overhead sky and the rich liquid into which you are looking . |