Example sentences of "more and [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative . |
| 2 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 3 | Gayle Rubin has productively suggested that the whole idea of having more and less acceptable areas of consensual sexual activity is one of the concepts which ensures that the oppression of sexual minorities will continue . |
| 4 | Underlying this , was the idea that if the more and less able pupils used different strategies these could be identified . |
| 5 | Hence there was no difference between these more and less able children in the strategy they used to add . |
| 6 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
| 7 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They are beginning to let more and more hotel-type contracts , which makes sense — if we 've got a lot of senior management on a big site , they might as well pick up the housekeeping as well . ’ |
| 10 | As more and more individual scientists , for a variety of reasons , are converted to the new paradigm there is an ‘ increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances ’ . |
| 11 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 12 | The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants . |
| 13 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 14 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 15 | Secondly , changes in the labour market and the increased participation of women in employment has raised questions about the extent to which lone mothers — like more and more married mothers — should be expected to take paid employment ( Brown , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 17 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 18 | The growing trend now is for more and more European golfers , and especially the heavyweights , to concentrate on playing the US circuit . |
| 19 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 20 | I warn the House — I am afraid that I have been an awful bore in continually pointing this out — that , as we extend the concept of health care out into the community , we shall find more and more unsatisfied demands that have not previously been recognised . |
| 21 | On 19 June , however , things began to warm up again , and the plume of steam and ash , which had been showing signs of flagging , rose higher and higher as more and more powerful explosions shook the air . |
| 22 | Without a strategy which forces the researcher to make contrasts , there will be a tendency to slide into a more universal conception of social representation , as more and more diffuse phenomena become labelled as ‘ social representations ’ . |
| 23 | It 's just that I have more and more good days . |
| 24 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 27 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 28 | These systems are going to become more and more simple , to accomplish more and more complex tasks . |
| 29 | It 's claimed more and more young people are turning to prostitution and begging on the streets of Nottingham as homelessness continues to increase . |
| 30 | They believe more and more young people could be feeling the strain . |