Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] more [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 11.18 shows the percentages of pupils ( boys and girls taken together ) in each sector gaining three or more A levels ( important for university entry ) , in England and Wales in 1951 and 1981 . |
| 2 | When we consider the attainment of higher political office , the trend is for the ‘ typical ’ MP to prevail more and more the higher one goes . |
| 3 | Now the centre-piece of the ‘ new ’ , lush , grass , airfield , and serving as the ‘ Officers Mess ’ is a surviving building from the field 's brief ‘ other ’ life , a totally restored relic of a war that grows more and more a second-hand experience as every day ticks by . |
| 4 | This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God , and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make . |
| 5 | The House of Lords can only look more and more an anachronism . |
| 6 | " The language emphasizes more and more the need for a new international economic order " , she said . |
| 7 | Companies will have to be more flexible in their demands , to accommodate more and more the individuals ' different hopes , wishes and ambitions . |
| 8 | In an age when we feel more and more the need to be in harmony with our environment , it makes sense to surround yourself with the infinite variety and beauty of today 's clay tiles , so sophisticated in their simplicity . |
| 9 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 10 | His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance . |
| 11 | I would obtain three or more the same size and allow them to grow up and pair off naturally . |
| 12 | Examples are our economy , which becomes more and more a credit economy , or our science , in which most scholars must use innumerable results of other scientists which they can not examine . |
| 13 | As the Quality Improvement Process becomes more and more a part of C&P 's culture , quality education will naturally become more integrated with the mainstream training programmes at all levels . |
| 14 | ‘ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe . ’ |
| 15 | As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives . |
| 16 | About 10% of school pupils take two or more A levels , usually in full-time education in school or FE college , between the ages of 17 and 19 . |
| 17 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 18 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 19 | Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) . |