Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [conj] more [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment Ezra left the Anglo-Saxon world he began to suffer more and more from the isolation of his intellectual exile . |
| 2 | At the same time , at the level of practical pedagogy , there is a counter-tendency in the study of the national canon to concentrate more and more on a small and diminishing number of texts . |
| 3 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 4 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |
| 5 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 6 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 7 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |