Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 2 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 3 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 4 | The outcome in the wider area of Church organization was that while Protestantism surrendered more and more to nationalism , Erastianism and/or fragmentation , Catholicism held these forces in check through clericalism , centralization and an enhanced uniformity . |
| 5 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |