Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the donor becomes more and more concerned at lack of action the recipient country staff become more and more dubious that the project is really in their national interest , and may even start discussions with another whose conditions may be perceived as less onerous . |
| 4 | I became more and more certain that John Carrow was not my father . ’ |
| 5 | The deepening recession in Germany makes it more and more certain that German companies will have to transfer manufacturing overseas , and so long as the former Comecon countries remain outside the European Community , Ireland will be one of the most cost-effective places to site new plants . |
| 6 | Moreover , if we bring to this common confusion the elementary historical observation that these presumptive classes of ‘ art ’ and ‘ sub-art ’ or ‘ non-art ’ tend to shift ( all novels , once , would have been in the downgrading classes ; particular classes of novel , for example ‘ science fiction ’ , move from one side of the divide to another , or are straddled across it ; cinema films are ‘ commercial popular culture ’ but then some films are ‘ high art ’ ) , we become more and more certain that we must refuse that beguiling invitation to leave aside ‘ sociological categories ’ and move to ‘ the works of art themselves ’ . |
| 7 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 8 | However Much rural housing became a public issue , which it did periodically until 1914 , the depression in agriculture generally ensured that little new building took place and it became more and more apparent that housing conditions in rural areas would receive no dramatic improvement without external intervention . |
| 9 | ‘ So , ’ he took up , ‘ I then grew more and more agitated that , if you did leave , I did n't have your home address . ’ |
| 10 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 11 | However , as month after month went by , I became more and more convinced that the real problem with the health service was a lack of management . |
| 12 | Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man . |
| 13 | By ten past nine , both boys were becoming more and more convinced that no one was going to arrive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As the days had gone by and there had been no sign of her , Kraal had become more and more convinced that Creggan 's belief in her return was hopeless and that Minch was gone for ever . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 18 | But as he walked , he became more and more convinced that he would also have to tell him about Surere . |
| 19 | As the negotiations proceeded , Owen became more and more convinced that this was so . |
| 20 | With his cuts bandaged tightly with handkerchiefs and two pairs of socks inside his running shoes he managed the morning dash around the garden , but realised as each step became stickier and more painful that there was no real hope of the gashes healing while he continued to fulfil the personal fitness goals in his Training Plan . |
| 21 | He was angry that the next day 's Guardian was to carry a damning review of Etruscan Pots Reconsidered , and more angry that this was common knowledge . |
| 22 | Lighter and more compact that the old Buick-derived Rover V8 , the new engine surprised everyone , not just because of its newness but because of its make-up — no four valves per cylinder , not even twin-cam cylinder heads . |
| 23 | He both hated it and loved it , and he became more and more afraid that someone would discover his secret . |
| 24 | After the election , therefore , it became more and more obvious that ‘ Authority-bashing ’ was part of the new programme . |
| 25 | Twice they were denied penalties for handball , one in each half , and when Colin Johnson hit the upright 16 minutes from time , it looked more and more obvious that this was not going to be their day . |
| 26 | As the years passed it became more and more obvious that the BDDA lacked a central office . |
| 27 | It would be a buck-passing exercise , at a time when it becoming more and more obvious that difficult political decisions are necessary . |
| 28 | It is becoming more and more likely that the main centres of population exploiting the countryside were in the valleys and that the evidence is largely obscured by later ( or continuously used ? ) settlements on roughly the same sites ( Fig. 57 ) . |
| 29 | As experimental and theoretical evidence mounted , it became more and more clear that the universe must have had a beginning in time , until in 1970 this was finally proved by Penrose and myself , on the basis of Einstein 's general theory of relativity . |
| 30 | Acknowledging that South Africa 's economy was far bigger and more sophisticated that their own , members agreed that South Africa 's eventual membership would increase the organization 's resources and the developmental pace of the region . |