Example sentences of "more [conj] more [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As more and more juice flows through the pith of skins , pips and stalks it gradually becomes discoloured ; even white grapes at this stage yield a relatively dark and murky juice . |
| 2 | With more and more money tied up in investment and machinery , firms would be unable to buy off workers during slumps and class conflict would be raised . |
| 3 | She found that she was having to wear more and more make-up to cover — these blemishes . |
| 4 | For the staff it will mean job losses as lines are cut and worse conditions as more and more work goes out to contract . |
| 5 | And lastly , Delia , do you see the movement towards more and more computerization continuing in the future ? |
| 6 | So you begin to take more cocaine , and quite soon you need more and more cocaine to unlock the gates of heaven , and once you reach heaven you do n't want to leave it and so you take still more cocaine , but by then it is n't working . ’ |
| 7 | But for all his incompetence in wartime , Hoover was now settled in the Washington game — privileged , sanctified , unbudgeable and with more and more information to use . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They spend more and more time trying to study how we work and how we do things . |
| 10 | One of the tests of the success of this training in " picture reading " will be that pupils will gradually spend more and more time looking at the picture , and " reading " it at various levels ( see Box 4 ) . |
| 11 | The difficulty in maintaining such a high level of domestic investment is clear from Japan 's deteriorating ratio of capital to output : it takes more and more investment to deliver a given increase in output . |
| 12 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 13 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 14 | But there was also a tendency in both kingdoms for more and more power to pass into the hands of the chancellor . |