Example sentences of "[verb] more [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time that phone rings the future of this school looks more and more shaky . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's claimed more and more young people are turning to prostitution and begging on the streets of Nottingham as homelessness continues to increase . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What matters more than prior political involvement is how far Law Lords consciously or otherwise are influenced in their judgments by their own political opinions , how far this is avoidable and how far it is undesirable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 13 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 14 | And I think for Mr to pretend that the Government has nothing to do with our problems , is unfortunately becoming more and more threadbare as an excuse . |
| 15 | I think in general cars , the newer vehicles , are becoming more and more reliable . |
| 16 | By and large I agree with Harvey erm I think one of the lessons that is becoming more and more obvious to more and more parents is that schools are there to educate . |
| 17 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 18 | It 's a popular dream , your own country pub full of friendly locals , but it 's becoming more and more elusive as prices continue to rise despite the dive in the house market . |
| 19 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 20 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 21 | And , we 're becoming more and more stringent on where people pile boxes and other various items of rubbish . |
| 22 | I will feel more and more independent … more able to stick up for myself … to stand upon my own feet … to hold my own … no matter how difficult or trying things may be . |
| 23 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 24 | Rather conflict must be controlled and must be utilized profitably in order to create more and better cultural means of living and working together ’ ( 1967 : xi ) . |
| 25 | And as the feeling of isolation deepened , so did Aunt Louise grow more and more irritable and hard-done-by . |
| 26 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 27 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 28 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 29 | Screeching an alarm call , they attract more and more small birds to the scene until the bird of prey is surrounded by a noisy , angry mob . |
| 30 | It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home . |