Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catarrhs of mucous membranes ; discharges start thin and excoriating and later become more thick and bland . |
| 2 | This failed and actually caught more than a single 18 mm bottom bait . |
| 3 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 4 | In this way , conventional practices are rationalized and so made more adaptable , as both Brumfit and Krashen point out . |
| 5 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 6 | In the 1980s , Stevens found fame and the album was re-released and eventually sold more than 100,000 copies . |