Example sentences of "[vb past] more [coord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 32 | While this sort of dissatisfaction was being aired , the Manpower Services Commission , established in 1974 as an offshoot of the Department of Trade and Industry , was becoming increasingly important in the training of the young unemployed : the education service seemed more and more to be poor , mean and irrelevant when contrasted with the up-to-date and positively useful service of training . |
| 33 | Media of all kinds seemed more and more to be under the control of a few large international corporations , headed by brusque individualists and outsize personalities such as Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch , who were natural heirs , perhaps , to the Beaverbrooks and Kemsleys . |
| 34 | This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals . |
| 35 | As the ways in which pop was written about swayed and shifted in the winds of hand-me-down art school theory , the ways in which it was produced seemed more and more familiar . |
| 36 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 37 | The result of these was that the areas covered by the ice and adjacent to the margins of the ice sheets experienced more or less regular successions of climate , ranging from glacial through periglacial to humid temperate in the glaciated areas and from periglacial to humid temperate in areas near the ice sheets . |
| 38 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 39 | In 1911 the Fitzroy became more or less transformed into the Camden Town Group , with Gore as president , and this in turn gave way to a more broadly based society , the London Group , with Gilman as president , in 1913 . |
| 40 | And erm well this became more or less the policy of the union . |
| 41 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 42 | None the less , during the period under review , it became more or less routine to treat peptic ulcers with cimetidine ( or ranitidine ) and the absence of any relation between peptic ulcer and motor neurone disease offers some reassurance . |
| 43 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 44 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 45 | Passive harassment became more and more active . |
| 46 | At the same time , CB , as it became in 1959 , has seen the source of its earnings diversify as consumer finance became more and more important to the group . |
| 47 | The administration became more and more centralized and the civil service enmeshed with it , notably after Robin Butler became Secretary to the Cabinet in 1988 . |
| 48 | As a growing proportion of an ageing population lived on into their eighties or even nineties , the disparity between their life chances and those of the able-bodied employed became more and more apparent . |
| 49 | Dawson underlined the importance of the family , a concept which became more and more explicit not only in Eliot 's later social writings but also in his plays . |
| 50 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |
| 51 | Gold became more easily available in African countries and the Patels became more and more gold-orientated as a community . |
| 52 | Racism became more and more intense and finally there were major eruptions in the race riots of 1958 . |
| 53 | Their relationship became more and more covert ; he left the police and they moved to a suburb where they ‘ passed for white ’ and began the long struggle called ‘ trying for white ’ . |
| 54 | The convicts became more and more upset , the guards were afraid , but they kept getting orders from above telling them to maintain these random violations of the equilibrium . |
| 55 | And then the Bible and Christianity became more and more central to the novel. , |
| 56 | However , as month after month went by , I became more and more convinced that the real problem with the health service was a lack of management . |
| 57 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 58 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 59 | Not long after the lorry driver left , the water became more and more acid and alarms went off . |
| 60 | As they travelled the landscape became more and more barren , populated only by the occasional tree , house and flock of cold looking sheep . |