Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 2 | In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before . |
| 3 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 4 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 5 | But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future . |
| 6 | And we believe we already offer that , I think the figures indicate that and therefore in the medium and the longer term I believe that our attractions will undoubtedly benefit and I would finally say that if you er , go back and look at the history of Disney in America , after the establishment of Disney Parks in America there was a big improvement in extension of the amusement parks in the rest of America which er , the traditional theme parks , so called , in America grew in the period after the establishment of Disney Land in California and I think a similar sort of thing is going to happen , not perhaps just in this country er , but also in Europe generally . |
| 7 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 8 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 9 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 10 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 11 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 12 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 13 | ‘ We have a licensed bar here so we use that as well for social evenings . |
| 14 | As we perceive more and more this equal spirit in all things , we pass into that equality of the spirit ; as we dwell more and more in this universal spirit , we become universal beings ; as we grow more and more aware of this eternal , we put on our eternity and are for ever . |
| 15 | His remark to Berthe Morisot in 1889 — ‘ I go less and less to paris , where the only thing people talk about is politics ’ — supports this view . |
| 16 | Can I say Chairman on on this report of the policy of the old policy and resources committee on the internal management of local authorities that was a very important issue because it 's I all issues are important but in particular the the seal the report is to inform the council of comments which the policy and resources committee has agreed to make the association of county councils on the recommendation of the joint working party on the internal management of local authority Now I 'm sure you , you 've waded through the report at least some of the during the last er week or so that er that you 've had it well I would advise you to turn to page thirty and thirty one because there 's lot eas and it 'll make life easier for you , if you do that and there on the bottom half of page thirty you will see the decisions of the policy and resources committee . |
| 17 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 18 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 19 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 20 | In particular , appealing to the transactions costs involved in buying and selling securities is of limited use as transactions costs are fixed costs which if anything rise less than proportionately to the size of the deal . |
| 21 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 22 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 23 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 24 | They have a poor diet and look bad , and gradually care less and less about themselves and how others see them . |
| 25 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |
| 26 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |