Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] more and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As sale voucher schemes were extended , the crime was more and more concentrated near district borders . |
| 2 | International relations in Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the First World War were more and more influenced by several factors which , if not always new , were growing rapidly in importance . |
| 3 | cos as land reform 's more and more successful then presumably more people were becoming middle peasants . |
| 4 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 5 | Marx believed he could observe the process of polarization in nineteenth-century Britain when he wrote ‘ Society as a whole is more and more splitting into two great hostile camps … bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ . |
| 6 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The emphasis in the human rights movement supported by this relativism is more and more in the direction of a hidden pragmatism . |
| 8 | Certainly the telegraph was more and more relied on . |
| 9 | The simple answer is more and better . |
| 10 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 11 | The elected parliament is more and more discredited . |
| 12 | When things go wrong , liability is more and more falling on company directors , with their own personal wealth at stake when they get sued , Neil Fitzgerald reports . |
| 13 | Social psychology is more and more interested in linguistic and ethnographic methods , and in the analysis of linguistic social representations , accounts , and repertoires . |
| 14 | It seems to me manifest that in a world in which sexual activity is more and more openly presented in all media , in which sex is exploited for purposes of advertisement and entertainment at every level , and in which people 's sexual proclivities are discussed in the plainest terms , children at school need to be given clear information from an early age , and a chance to have their questions answered at various stages of their school career . |
| 15 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 16 | Wilson himself noted enthusiastically that ‘ the backbone of the Party is more and more teetotal in its sympathies ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ She started to grow very short of breath then and the decline was more and more rapid until she could not walk or move around . |