Example sentences of "more and [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 2 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 3 | more And that 's why I said , when it sounded so low that 's why I I still doubt his figures . |
| 4 | yeah one more and that 's enough |
| 5 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 6 | Most studies of more and less have focused on lexical knowledge of the pertinent terms . |
| 7 | Some will contain more and some less . |
| 8 | It was certain that some would have more and some less of the " lowest 40 per cent " nationally , however this target group was defined . |
| 9 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 10 | Carry out his orders with more and more reluctance . |
| 11 | As time goes on , the Government envisages more and more hospitals becoming NHS Trusts , with powers to negotiate what services they will provide . |
| 12 | This gesture becomes more strongly evident and unpredictable as more and more events crowd in until both hands are used to shut out thoughts of the suicide he feels is inevitable . |
| 13 | In doing so , they underlined a fact which is likely to attract more and more attention as tankers continue to shift toxins from town to town , country to country : the waste chain is long . |
| 14 | Should the only answer be to tack more and more suburbs on to the edge of Reading and more ‘ executive housing ’ on to the fringes of Berkshire or Hampshire villages ? |
| 15 | We would be forced to invent more and more mechanisms to avoid the realignments which members of the ERM are bound to face . |
| 16 | Here , whatever else is obscure , the need for a much greater commitment of resources is indisputable : without , for example , a massive renewal and expansion of physical provision , men and methods will not avail , though men are the essence of the service and methods cry out for more and more exploration . |
| 17 | With more and more people getting their pop information from our squalid popular press and with most modern magazines covering music using only the language of consumerism and gossip , it is increasingly difficult to feel optimistic about rock journalism 's values . |
| 18 | They spend more and more time trying to study how we work and how we do things . |
| 19 | Sons were needed — more and more sons . |
| 20 | But what is it like to go from one pregnancy to the next — going on having more and more children ? |
| 21 | It is ‘ live ’ entertainment at a time when more and more television is pre-recorded and packaged , and even recorded events can sustain uncertainty of outcome if the result is unknown to the viewer . |
| 22 | These are the symptoms of ‘ jet-lag ’ , and they are being experienced by more and more people as flights — many no longer a short journey across to France but spanning the globe — become more common . |
| 23 | The trend is ever upwards , as East Berlin draws more and more visitors . |
| 24 | As more and more employees hear about RSI , claims for compensation are bound to rise — last year more than 2,000 people were awarded state injury benefits . |
| 25 | Is it any wonder that more and more women resort to wearing jeans and anoraks ? |
| 26 | Long favoured by those long-lived Orientals , who recognise that touch can create powerful changes in our minds and bodies , massage is fast being acknowledged by more and more people in the West as a perfect antidote to our pressure-cooker lifestyle . |
| 27 | The study , using data supplied by a nationwide survey of 1,000 people , shows that more and more people are tackling increasingly advanced jobs as the area becomes demystified . |
| 28 | And at that point , of course , it swings into the issue of bio-diversity and the threat that destruction of the tropical rainforests , with their genetic richness , will mean more and more plants being lost for good . |
| 29 | With more and more options to choose from , customers and software developers are increasingly reluctant to plump for just one . |
| 30 | Lending institutions now sell more and more of their mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , which in turn package them into securities and sell them to investors . |