Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] more [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 2 | We are learning more and more about the body 's complex system of integrated metabolic pathways — for instance , the recent discovery of the prostaglandin system — but much , much more remains to be discovered . |
| 3 | As the days went by she moaned more and more about the mess the wood caused . |
| 4 | Moreover Henry was thinking more and more about the future of his dynasty and his lands . |
| 5 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 6 | As this work proceeded they began to include discussions of ever-earlier periods , and therefore they moved more and more into the field of anthropology . |
| 7 | The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward . |
| 8 | It can be seen that , as the point of decision making moves more and more into the information side of the system , the significance of in-built values and assumptions expands considerably and the qualitative nature of those assumptions also changes . |
| 9 | Legislation has shifted more and more into the federal domain , which was not what the authors of the constitution intended . |
| 10 | Some present-day caddies , sponsored by golf equipment companies and able to command ‘ endorsement ’ fees , earn more than many of the players , as well as moving more and more into the limelight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finally , Lord , we pray that we may be transformed more and more into the likeness and nature of the bride of Christ ; cleanse us from all that is not pure , and help us all to walk in ways that are holy . |
| 13 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will appreciate that objection is taken to eating more and more into the principle by which the burden of proof is on the prosecution to establish guilt and not on the defendant to establish innocence . |
| 14 | The historian has to concern himself more and more with the disentangling of mass trends and less and less with the exploration of the work of individuals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had also wondered more and more during the week about the little group of cottages at Agia Varvara , the bay east of Bourani . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | Subsequently , Miss Picon inclined more and more to the legitimate theatre , both on Broadway and on tour . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that many Primary teachers at this time gave up trying their own hand at teaching the subject , leaving more and more to the ‘ expert ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 23 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 24 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 25 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 26 | Even things like couriers , taxis and other business-related expenses are being charged more and more to the card . |
| 27 | As the life of the city began , haltingly , to achieve some simple routine , Nicholas spent his time more and more on the business of medicine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After this the folk of Nagarythe became ever more desperate , relying more and more on the blackest of sorceries for their defence . |
| 30 | 2 But since the rise of structuralism in the sixties Marxist criticism has been more and more on the defensive . |