Example sentences of "[pron] [be] more and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am more and more intrigued , every minute , ’ Catherine said . |
| 2 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 3 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
| 4 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 5 | He commented aloud , with a delighted laugh , ‘ You know , I 'm more and more convinced that the illustrious Don , the genial thinker , was n't taking a revenge on his family , or plotting the downfall of the house of Beatillo , or shaking the structure of property and power in these parts , or thumbing his nose at you-know-who . |
| 6 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 7 | I was more and more afraid . |
| 8 | She was more and more worried . |
| 9 | After Joyce … it seems that we are more and more moving towards an age of fiction in which … invention and imagination may finally become the subject of the book . |
| 10 | From that night on , we were more and more successful . |
| 11 | There are more and more women architects , engineers , journalists , doctors and lawyers . |
| 12 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
| 13 | But at last things are falling into place ; there are a greater number of tournaments now available in Britain for our players to compete in ; there are more and more indoor facilities and our coaches are trying their hardest to breathe life back into the game . |
| 14 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 15 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 16 | There were more and more debtors calling at Lindsay 's door . |
| 17 | They kept going just as fast — faster — but there were more and more of them . |
| 18 | Equal ops policy : Kathryn said that there were more and more occasions when management wanted the union to agree to not advertising posts externally . |
| 19 | There 's more and more lights over the road — you know , from shops and that , and there 's more people walking about . |
| 20 | There 's more and more talk about the inability or unwillingness of the North Africans to adapt and conform . |
| 21 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 22 | There 's more and more of them all the time , ’ said Mr Costie . |
| 23 | In the meantime there 's more and more going bust every week ! |
| 24 | There 's more and |
| 25 | and we 've , we 've a steady occupation etcetera etcetera , but we just turn er , er , you know we 're just blind to these people who 've got nothing and there 's more and more people have got nothing |
| 26 | In the present situation , there is more and more scope for adult or continuing education , with an older or academically late-developing constituency . |
| 27 | I strolled along the narrow path with the anticipatory exhilaration a fine morning bestows , that quids-in glow of youth , confident that there is more and better to come . |
| 28 | There is more and more evidence that members are expected to work more overtime ; with strong attempts by some Management not to pay members for overtime worked . |
| 29 | There was more and more control by the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |