Example sentences of "more and [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 2 | We became increasingly angry and frustrated , feeling more and more that to work politically with men , whatever their sexuality , was simply a debilitating exercise . |
| 3 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 4 | In the woman with bone metastases the pain became ‘ more and more difficult to relieve with opioids ’ , not surprisingly since such pain is better treated with other analgesics . |
| 5 | I look in occasionally for a drink and a chat though he 's getting more and more difficult to talk to . |
| 6 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in the mixed ability class . |
| 7 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed ability class . |
| 8 | Black and Tan outrages had drawn only lame excuses , even denials , from the Government , and it was becoming more and more difficult to contradict the widespread assertion — by the local newspapers , by the man in the street , even by the RIC themselves — that the whole purpose of the Black and Tans was to crush Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army and cow the population . |
| 9 | It was getting more and more difficult to feed the cat — and to feed himself . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 11 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |
| 12 | The secretary , John Allen , said : ‘ We need to expand our coaching organisation because people are finding it more and more difficult to do what is needed . |
| 13 | I did my best , but it became more and more difficult to do the work on the farm and look after him . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's just become more and more difficult to manage — he wanders , and he has to be kept clean … |
| 15 | As the disease progressed , however , cold became more and more difficult to deny . |
| 16 | In short , an awful lot , since this is an information-packed service that is potentially of great use to us all , particularly at a time when it seems to be getting more and more difficult to get hard facts out of other parts of the aviation information system . |
| 17 | It was more and more difficult to get into the photographic laboratory . |
| 18 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 19 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 20 | It was , in other words , becoming more and more difficult to postpone the future . |
| 21 | The Popular Front government found it more and more difficult to maintain its legitimacy . |
| 22 | And it more and more difficult to imagine any world other than the one portrayed on TV . |
| 23 | Almost all accidents start with a simple error on the part of the pilot that leads to a chain of events , each of which makes the situation worse and an accident more and more difficult to avoid . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it is becoming more and more difficult to avoid things like direct debits , particularly if you are dealing with insurance companies who , on the whole , prefer this form of payment , and will try to coerce you into doing it . |
| 25 | But the increasing activism of its supporters , particularly young Catholics living in ghetto areas , made it more and more difficult to exercise restraint . |
| 26 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 27 | Military reforms initiated in the 1870s , which reduced the standing army , introduced universal conscription , and built a large reserve of trained men on the western model , had made it more and more difficult to insulate soldiers from civilian life and inculcate unquestioning obedience . |
| 28 | Additionally , private landlords became marginalized politically ; industrialists had not extended the housing market and private landlords were drawn largely , though not entirely , from the lower middle class — the very people who found it more and more difficult to establish their position on local councils , bearing in mind , at least , the new element of organized labour via the Trades Councils . |
| 29 | Although his general health seemed more stable after his long recuperation , he was finding it more and more difficult to keep up with his daily obligations , let alone those of a more public nature . |
| 30 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |