Example sentences of "more and [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 2 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 4 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 5 | Liberalism was Left more and more to the Jews who , as a socially inferior group , were naturally more inclined to see the value of individual liberty and equality than the Germans , intoxicated since the victory of 1870 ( over France ) by a sense of the strength of the German people … |
| 6 | The National Coal Board having decided not to do this , control of the protest fell more and more to the police and to the criminal courts . |
| 7 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 8 | Even things like couriers , taxis and other business-related expenses are being charged more and more to the card . |