Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Output was falling , strikes were growing and the only response of the government was to impose more and more controls at home and blame foreign capital and the US in particular for the mess which it had itself created . |
| 2 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 3 | In the nineteen nineties with the tumbling costs of hardware we can adv afford to provide more and more people in our enterprise-with access to a computer or the information within in . |
| 4 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 5 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 6 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 7 | In doing so , they underlined a fact which is likely to attract more and more attention as tankers continue to shift toxins from town to town , country to country : the waste chain is long . |
| 8 | Self-catering holidays in rural France continue to attract more and more converts . |
| 9 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 10 | Michael Murphy , chief executive of the Western Education Board , the largest in the province , said today : ‘ We are having to replace more and more governors , and my fear is the situation will get worse . |
| 11 | Of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner . |
| 12 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 13 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 14 | We would be forced to invent more and more mechanisms to avoid the realignments which members of the ERM are bound to face . |
| 15 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 16 | Fewer and fewer people of working age will have to support more and more people no longer earning . |
| 17 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 18 | Well , I 'm glad to see more & more people are realising that Keegan is a complete twat ! |
| 19 | I think as chemists we would be glad to see more and more women come into the subject . |
| 20 | It is good to see more and more cyclists in Scotland and an increasing number of cycling groups on the main roads and in cities . |
| 21 | As compression techniques improve and storage becomes greater , we can expect to see more and more disc based products which combine , in consumer entertainment , education , training and even in business communications , digital sound , data , graphics and moving pictures to create genuinely multimedia information products . |
| 22 | Virani was able to issue more and more paper in order to finance bigger and bigger deals . |
| 23 | She found that she was having to wear more and more make-up to cover — these blemishes . |
| 24 | Other people can be motivated into activity year-in-year-out just to acquire more and more money . |
| 25 | For example , in paragraph 2.19 it states ’ HMI was concerned to hear , repeatedly , from police officers that they were having to concede more and more ground to the hooligans in the street , as no police back-up could be expected when scanty resources were deployed to incidents . ’ |
| 26 | As it was , in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany . |
| 27 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 28 | Should the only answer be to tack more and more suburbs on to the edge of Reading and more ‘ executive housing ’ on to the fringes of Berkshire or Hampshire villages ? |
| 29 | Jim Muotome , Glenn 's partner , says Glasgow is starting to get more and more ravers from down south . |
| 30 | Towards the end I began to get more and more glimpses into my past and at last my wits were fully restored . |