Example sentences of "more and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the government is going more and more toward privatisation , [ acquiring Finsiel ] should n't be a problem , ’ he noted . |
| 2 | Along with internationalism , these values were to have a steadily devaluing currency in a postwar Britain inclined more and more towards individualism and consumer sovereignty . |
| 3 | It proved to be a period of strained relations with the English liberals , who were allies of the Irish party , but who were also in favour of bringing schooling more and more under state rather than church control ( Miller 1973 : 81–7 , 120–38 , 268–92 ) . |
| 4 | Just too late to serve the dwindling numbers of travelling public which had relied heavily on the railways , it remained open for only 40 years , during which time the car came more and more into ascendancy as a means of transport . |
| 5 | However , he is optimistic ( as any professional researcher must remain ! ) , for he cites Sir Kenneth Newman 's efforts as the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to ‘ make police ethics a major issue , so that performance assessment , promotion criteria etc. , will take integrity and professional conduct more and more into account ’ . |
| 6 | From the time of the Norman invasion until the 14th century the Manor of Halling was involved more and more with church affairs for being a manor of the Bishop we find many important matters being decided here and many documents were signed here . |
| 7 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 12 | Trade by water was easier ; the sugar colonies had a very saleable product close to the sea and as they concentrated more and more on sugar they imported their food , first from England , then from Ireland , and by the eighteenth century from New England and from the Carolinas . |
| 13 | It seemed to me more and more as time passed that the RAF was bearing all the casualties of this war and that the other Services were taking life easily . |
| 14 | Montagu 's stated intention was to ‘ hold India ’ not by main force but ‘ by just institutions , and more and more as time goes on by the consent of the governed ’ . |
| 15 | It 's getting more and more like peacetime . ’ |
| 16 | She stared ahead of her to where Wind Street met High Street but she did n't see the portico of the inn she was passing or the ornate facades of the tall houses ; she was acknowledging to herself that she was falling more and more in love with Craig Grenfell . |
| 17 | He became more and more in love with the beauty of his face , more and more interested in the ugliness of his soul . |
| 18 | Yet with Rosemary still refusing to go out with Travis and Travis falling more and more in love with her the whole time , there was no way he could stay away . |
| 19 | And fell more and more in love with you , be it lunching with you , or dining with you , watching your innocent pleasure as you in turn watched the astronomical clock strike the hour . |
| 20 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 21 | These are being found more and more in water supplies but are unlikely to cause process difficulties unless anionic material combines with cation-active agents being used in finishing . |
| 22 | Cells in different parts of the embryo can be thought of as developing along quite different pathways , diverging more and more in character . |
| 23 | The point of using your imagination and dreaming is that , once you have an outline of the dream , you can then begin to think about it more and more in detail until you can bring it back into your own reality . |
| 24 | ‘ Architects are more and more in need of reassurance where product liability is concerned , and a new BS 402 is a major step forward in this respect , ’ he says . |
| 25 | The fact that credit scoring is so relatively new to this country , but is likely to be used more and more in future , suggests that the time is particularly ripe for agreeing guidelines on scoring techniques . |
| 26 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |
| 27 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 28 | banks , slightly hobbled , more and more in step . |