Example sentences of "[conj] more [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment . |
| 2 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 3 | When will the Government spend less on advertising and more on the police and crime prevention ? |
| 4 | The emphasis would be less on workers and families as individuals and more on the roles they play , and how these roles are constrained by certain formal and informal rules . |
| 5 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 6 | West Berlin is all these things and more to the inhabitants of the GDR . |
| 7 | The National Coal Board having decided not to do this , control of the protest fell more and more to the police and to the criminal courts . |
| 8 | Liberalism was Left more and more to the Jews who , as a socially inferior group , were naturally more inclined to see the value of individual liberty and equality than the Germans , intoxicated since the victory of 1870 ( over France ) by a sense of the strength of the German people … |
| 9 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 10 | Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life . |
| 11 | On his return to Addis Ababa my father was increasingly concerned by an evident predilection for Islam on the part of Lij Yasu , who was consorting more and more with the Muslims of his empire , and frequenting mosques . |
| 12 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 13 | It would be less at the equator ( perhaps half a degree ) and more at the poles perhaps six degrees ; certainly enough to melt a great deal of polar ice . |
| 14 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 15 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 16 | But more on the alterations later . |
| 17 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |