Example sentences of "and [vb past] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 2 | How often I have watched , nay studied it , and wasted more honest words upon it than I can [ on ] most men ! … |
| 3 | Partially-sighted Mr Clarke , 72 , had been tied up and stabbed more than 40 times . |
| 4 | Keogan et al studied 2017 patients referred for chest radiography and recommended more selective use of chest radiography through the application of selection guidelines . |
| 5 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 6 | As music and musical instruments developed and became more flexible , so did the dance . |
| 7 | Economic perceptions were fairly predictable in the Pre-Campaign Wave and became more so towards the end of the campaign . |
| 8 | Burrows , now clutching at straws , looked into it and became more and more interested in the actor . |
| 9 | Vehicles that evolved a bottlenecked life cycle prospered , and became more discrete and vehicle-like . |
| 10 | After 20 sessions , 70 per cent of those breathing pure oxygen tired less easily and became more mobile and co-ordinated . |
| 11 | So , naturally we started to feed them separately and became more careful when giving them titbits . |
| 12 | Techniques of interrogation and espionage improved and became more sophisticated every day — yet still the old methods remained as effective as they ever had . |
| 13 | But for a schoolboy , you will appreciate this was not easy , and became more and more difficult as the amount of lecture work and breeding costs increased . |
| 14 | Parents saw and began to understand the difficulties which teachers faced and became more sympathetic and supportive . |
| 15 | But at first the cities simply increased in number , grew in population and became more densely packed . |
| 16 | While Dace said that recession continued in the UK and became more visible in continental Europe , exchange rate movements meant that revenues were maintained in all sectors of Riva 's business . |
| 17 | He sounded agitated , and became more so when Gentle identified himself . |
| 18 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |
| 19 | Rhee intensified his pressure in the early months of 1947 and became more outspoken in criticising the military government . |
| 20 | He then slept badly and became more silent and withdrawn than was his habit . |
| 21 | Baldwin was uneasy about the reaction to the so-called pact , and became more so as a violent storm of influential criticism burst over his head , The editor of The Times , most of the bishops ( even Lang of Canterbury ) , and the whole of the liberal establishment were horrified at the sell-out . |
| 22 | Justifications were forthcoming , and became more and more adequate as better and better telescopes were constructed and as optical theories of their functioning were developed . |
| 23 | The web spread and became more entangled . |
| 24 | Soviet spokesmen generally argued that , considerable though their ethnic differences might be , they would diminish and ultimately disappear as social and economic standards throughout the USSR improved and became more uniform . |
| 25 | His voice softened when he saw her reaction and became more confident , as though he could now say what he wanted rather than what he ought to say . |
| 26 | One or two other teachers were encouraged by my willingness to argue against racial prejudice and became more vocal themselves . |
| 27 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 28 | When Edward saw that I was willing to work , and that the ground covered in a day could be almost doubled with my help , he relaxed and became more open with me . |
| 29 | It seems the whole of Japan saw the one-hour programme and became more aware of the Wedgwood Group and its products . |
| 30 | The villages were remote and became more so with every mile they flew . |