Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ When somebody is in a situation where they feel there is no way out , feel trapped , lost , unloved , helpless , powerless , they are in a definite negative spiral and are getting deeper and deeper into a place where they are more and more frightened and despairing . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 13 | These days , it 's more and more important for both partners to have life cover . |
| 14 | It 's more and more common for people to have chickens , ducks and ponies . |
| 15 | ‘ In fact , I think it 's gone to the other extreme in that it 's more and more difficult for companies in that classification to raise any equity whatsoever . |
| 16 | Erm as I digest Mr 's comments and the various implications erm of the things that he said , it 's more and more confirming for me that perhaps we may well be right in the step by step measured approach because quite clearly erm I suspect that if we run at this stage a preferred location , erm I suspect that the the opposition to that and there would be opposition to it , may well have may well prejudice the principle er of the new settlement . |
| 17 | Sure it 's more and get them brand new |
| 18 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
| 19 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 20 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 21 | At any stage , the machine may jump away from any local minimum ; but as T gets smaller , it is more and more likely to stay near a particular minimum . |
| 22 | We can add to our knowledge of the European from 1880 onwards the fact that he is more and more likely to be a city-dweller , and to live in an industrial city . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's more and more violent now , and sometimes has fights with the people from the village . |
| 24 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 25 | It was more and more focused on the internal biochemistry of the individual , as against the older and simpler individual/environment equation . |
| 26 | It was more and more difficult to get into the photographic laboratory . |
| 27 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 28 | The swimming in the hotel pool benefited him , he told Herbert Read , but he was more and more conscious of the weight of the years . |