Example sentences of "more and [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palermo ( 1974 ) attributed it to ‘ much more syntactic context … which may have aided performance ’ , but an alternative interpretation is that , because children heard both more and less in each question in the study by Griffiths et al . , |
| 2 | Since the first edition of this book my Own views have inclined more and more towards major transgressions and regressions as the main cause of organic evolution and extinction . |
| 3 | As the Romans turned more and more towards arcuated construction , with the orders used in a decorative capacity there was no such restriction and the columns are sometimes separated by a distance as great as their height . |
| 4 | In any case , as anthropologists have learned more and more about different societies , they have found ever-greater difficulty in putting into any one list of stages the variety of forms of human society which modern research has revealed . |
| 5 | As his work progressed he read more and more about non-European societies and modified his general historical views accordingly . |
| 6 | The denunciations of dangerous new ideas in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis are intelligible enough , but by now they were almost bound to be ineffective , and as the intellectual viability of ultramontanism crumbled , the now unprotected power structure surrounding the papal monarchy came more and more into open and criticizable view . |
| 7 | Venues boasting ‘ Fred ont' thorgan ’ and ‘ Bert ont' drums ’ were getting rarer and I found myself working more and more with small orchestras . |
| 8 | We can go on producing more and more with less and less people . |
| 9 | We 're asking our troops to do more and more with less and less . |
| 10 | Over the last nine years , as I have dealt more and more with these matters , I have gained more experience . |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the fund-holding system has been a spectacular success — so much so that many of the more trendy , intellectual GPs who were initially sceptical of it now welcome it more and more with open arms ? |
| 12 | By the time the men put their " memorial " to the employers in November 1909 , the situation was acute : " Not only has hand composition been lately going over more and more to female labour , but the operating on the type-composing machines has also been practically monopolised by the same class of cheap labour , to the consequent injury of our members . " |
| 13 | Pulled more and more to this unkempt edge of the field . |
| 14 | Yet the game turns inward , relying more and more on major sponsorship deals , television contracts and executive activities that seem a million miles from the ordinary man in the street . |
| 15 | Imperceptibly , slowly but definitely the eyes of my mind focussed more and more on that eye in the desert , Al Ain . |
| 16 | Mr Booth said that BTI is concentrating more and more on multinational customers . |
| 17 | This reinforces the view , developed in the previous chapter , that manufacturing industry in particular is following the Armed Forces in relying more and more on fit , skilled , mobile workers . |
| 18 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 19 | IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job . |
| 20 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 21 | States are not the only actors ; the distinction between domestic and international societies is less clear-cut than before ; and international politics looks to be influenced increasingly less by military factors and more and more by economic issues . |
| 22 | While Humanae Vitae began the detachment of large segments of the Catholic community , particularly more vocal segments , from the near unanimous and unquestioned following of papal authority characteristic of the pre-Vatican II era , it was left to John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger , prefect from November 1981 of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , to harden that detachment into a consistent attitude of distrust as the pope seemed to distance himself more and more from many of the central values of the Council , and of the most apparently positive and welcomed developments of Catholicism in the subsequent years . |
| 23 | ‘ Corporates are buying more and more from direct channels ’ says Michael Spiro , financial director . |
| 24 | And more and more in vain . |
| 25 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |
| 26 | The trend towards slower population growth appeared more and more in wealthier countries and regions . |
| 27 | This incensed the Captain even more and out of that cabin I got ! ’ |