Example sentences of "[det] [coord] more [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 2 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 3 | It 's very dangerous because lots of people looking at you makes you think more and more about the image that you 're presenting to the world . |
| 4 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 5 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 6 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 7 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 8 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 9 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 10 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 11 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 14 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 15 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 16 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 17 | He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ . |
| 18 | He acknowledged that ‘ the war is now moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ‘ ideals ’ ' . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From the moment Ezra left the Anglo-Saxon world he began to suffer more and more from the isolation of his intellectual exile . |