Example sentences of "[to-vb] more [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 2 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Virani was able to issue more and more paper in order to finance bigger and bigger deals . |
| 11 | She found that she was having to wear more and more make-up to cover — these blemishes . |
| 12 | Other people can be motivated into activity year-in-year-out just to acquire more and more money . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 15 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 16 | You 'll have to take more and more film of him , then it 's lovely when you look back on it |
| 17 | A man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money , but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose . |
| 18 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |
| 19 | In general , therefore , it constrains the increasing tendency for usefulness to mean more and more information . |
| 20 | In this period not only did the nature of the trade-offs change but at the same time the policy-makers came to attach more or less importance to particular objectives . |
| 21 | ‘ We want to become more and more specialist . ’ |
| 22 | Advocacy of the agrarian community as the manifestation of the traditional Japanese spirit led agrarianist views to become more and more part of a broader nationalist ideology . |
| 23 | There is , however , a tendency for the public and the government to get used to industrial action and to adapt to it , so inducing groups to become more and more militant in order to sustain the same level of impact . |