Example sentences of "more and more [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 2 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 3 | Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children . |
| 4 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 5 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 6 | Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females . |