Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I was more or less going as she come in . |
| 2 | The geneticist 's language is no more nor less metaphorical when he calls the gene selfish than when he depicts it as though itself working out the solutions in games theory by which he is explaining its survival . |
| 3 | FOOTBALL 'S new Premier League becomes more and more meaningless as millionaires vie with each other to buy the title . |
| 4 | Hawkes 's polemical purpose becomes more and more apparent as the book develops : it is to undermine , not only established literary study , but liberal humanism itself . |
| 5 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 6 | Notice how meaning becomes more and more slippery as we move from one layer to the next . |
| 7 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 8 | You should continue to lose weight and to feel more and more healthy as the weeks go by . |
| 9 | They become more and more frequent until they lose all meaning as acts of atonement and become simply acts of smoking . |
| 10 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 11 | It shows in the clearness of our skin , the brightness of our eyes and the shine of our hair — assets that become more and more valuable when you no longer have the simple attraction of youth on your side . |
| 12 | It 's a popular dream , your own country pub full of friendly locals , but it 's becoming more and more elusive as prices continue to rise despite the dive in the house market . |
| 13 | The fact remains , and will become more and more evident as the year goes by , that the deliberate under-funding of the Act was an act of incompetence by incompetent ministers . |
| 14 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 15 | You can get more and more outrageous if you wish . |
| 16 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 17 | It 's getting more and more important as it goes . |
| 18 | Greek tragedy concerns a single problem that becomes more and more urgent until it culminates in crime . |
| 19 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 20 | The tendons to the corners of the mouth may stand out clearly like lengths of string , and the facial muscles will become more and more obvious as they tauten and contract in the normal flat plains of the horse 's head . |