Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [conj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | Mixtures are substances consisting of two or more pure substances . |
| 3 | Green shoots or otherwise , the effects of recession continue to bite and booksellers and publishers are looking for innovative and more profitable ways of doing business . |
| 4 | One device introduced to create harmonic stress was that of writing in two or more different keys or modes at the same time — to write bitonal and polytonal music . |
| 5 | If the transferred employee insists on moving into bigger or more ‘ up market ’ accommodation , the excess mortgage allowance is based on the price of housing comparable with that owned in the old area . |
| 6 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 7 | Whereas businesses are moving to more and more decentralized operations , business units still need to have instantaneous access to information . |
| 8 | ‘ Still , it 's only guesswork , ’ Pascoe was being the lawyer — asking for better and more secure evidence . |
| 9 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 10 | Most of the above theories suggest that leadership style is a question of choosing between two or more mutually exclusive leadership alternatives eg either democratic or authoritarian . |
| 11 | I tried to stop her but she kept on putting on more and more outside gear . |
| 12 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 13 | Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods . |