Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus , any decision by an authority to spend more or less on services than the government 's assumed level will be reflected directly in the level of charge it has to set . |
| 2 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 3 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 4 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 5 | Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children . |
| 6 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 7 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 8 | Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females . |