Example sentences of "more and more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 2 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 3 | These rapidly accumulated round the fissure , building up into a conical heap , and then , as more and more new material emerged from the fissures , lava flows were erupted and began to stream down the ski-slopes . |
| 4 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 5 | The economists , for example , have insisted on more and more technical emphasis in order to ( as they see it ) equip ‘ their ’ graduates to compete better in the marketplace . |
| 6 | I tried to stop her but she kept on putting on more and more outside gear . |
| 7 | One of the authors summarized the position in the words : ‘ Since 1922 we have come to recognise more and more that chemotherapy in the sense in which Ehrlich introduced the term , is more of a dream than a reality ’ . |
| 8 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 9 | Now they are having to change their attitude as more and more public school kids rifle shops in London 's Kings Road and South Molton Street for the best in designer gear Because of their rich clientele , the shops have not previously used the tags and electronic security systems used in high street stores to protect themselves against the £1.5 billion-worth of goods lost through shoplifting each year But designer clothes are attracting designer thieves . |
| 10 | Mastery of that code by distant descendants could therefore become more ‘ mindless ’ in the early stages ( even those involving significant structure ) as brains were shaped by natural selection for more and more rapid language acquisition . |
| 11 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 12 | We may also find that more and more top management jobs in big companies are filled by hiring people away from smaller companies . |
| 13 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 14 | And if British farmers do not anticipate the changes needed , then supermarkets , responding to consumer demand , will simply import more and more foreign food instead , warns Professor James . |
| 15 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 16 | The ‘ limited ’ intrusion of ‘ strict liability ’ into criminal law could be expanded to cover more and more corporate behaviour so that the issue of responsibility and intention becomes subsidiary to the more pressing need to compensate victims and make the offending corporation foot the bill . |