Example sentences of "[verb] more and [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 2 | Their efforts were directed towards drawing more and more of the Christian life into the sacred time of the liturgy . |
| 3 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 4 | It fits with a common experience of addiction , that of needing to do more and more of the drug just to keep from feeling bad . |
| 5 | Once the initial fright had subsided more and more of the children started to return and , apart from constant air-raid warnings which were more of a nuisance , schools were able to function normally . |
| 6 | Although Tiller still produced the Winter Gardens show every year , he delegated more and more of the work there to his assistant directors as he was so busy abroad . |
| 7 | This has certainly been the record industry strategy : in the last ten years the major companies have consolidated their control of the manufacture and distribution of records , tapes and videos while leaving more and more of the musical enterprise to the ‘ independents ’ . |