Example sentences of "[vb base] more [coord] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before . |
| 3 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 4 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 5 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 6 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 7 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 8 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 9 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 12 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 13 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 14 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 15 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 16 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |
| 17 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |