Example sentences of "and more [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the government is going more and more toward privatisation , [ acquiring Finsiel ] should n't be a problem , ’ he noted . |
| 2 | Along with internationalism , these values were to have a steadily devaluing currency in a postwar Britain inclined more and more towards individualism and consumer sovereignty . |
| 3 | It seemed to me more and more as time passed that the RAF was bearing all the casualties of this war and that the other Services were taking life easily . |
| 4 | Montagu 's stated intention was to ‘ hold India ’ not by main force but ‘ by just institutions , and more and more as time goes on by the consent of the governed ’ . |
| 5 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 6 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
| 7 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , some social survey projects do not necessarily require a great deal of theoretical background reading and the emphasis in this case will be less on the library and more on fieldwork . |
| 9 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |
| 10 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 11 | They now rely less on naff novelties and more on structure and nuance , while still retaining an Alec Gilroy-sense of showbiz . |
| 12 | Liquidity is based less on the dollar or other key reserve assets and more on variety of currencies , since there is no obligation to peg individual currencies to any particular standard . |
| 13 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 14 | Radical feminist and Marxist feminist interpretations of the education system have focused less on attitudes and more on power structures . |
| 15 | Trade by water was easier ; the sugar colonies had a very saleable product close to the sea and as they concentrated more and more on sugar they imported their food , first from England , then from Ireland , and by the eighteenth century from New England and from the Carolinas . |
| 16 | The outcome in the wider area of Church organization was that while Protestantism surrendered more and more to nationalism , Erastianism and/or fragmentation , Catholicism held these forces in check through clericalism , centralization and an enhanced uniformity . |
| 17 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 18 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 19 | Grace openly demanded payment of £20 a match from Gloucester and more for Test matches ; Wisden could only comment that ‘ nice customs curtsey to great kings ’ . |
| 20 | Quantities should be of the order ½-1 kg per sq m ( 1–2 lb per sq yd ) where the pH is 6.0 , and double this if it is 5.0 , giving less for sandy soil and more for clay . |
| 21 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 22 | Just too late to serve the dwindling numbers of travelling public which had relied heavily on the railways , it remained open for only 40 years , during which time the car came more and more into ascendancy as a means of transport . |
| 23 | However , he is optimistic ( as any professional researcher must remain ! ) , for he cites Sir Kenneth Newman 's efforts as the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to ‘ make police ethics a major issue , so that performance assessment , promotion criteria etc. , will take integrity and professional conduct more and more into account ’ . |
| 24 | The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax . |
| 25 | Among the items planned are articles on ethical issues related to doing research ; a report on the recent CARN conference ( for what CARN is see page 5 ) ; more about recommended books , more about research and local authorities , and more about research methods . |
| 26 | The newcomers will have to learn that political advertising is less about selling and more about persuasion . |
| 27 | All this requires bankers to worry less about putting yesterday 's mistakes behind them and more about learning — indeed , profiting — from those errors . |
| 28 | It proved to be a period of strained relations with the English liberals , who were allies of the Irish party , but who were also in favour of bringing schooling more and more under state rather than church control ( Miller 1973 : 81–7 , 120–38 , 268–92 ) . |
| 29 | Today the once-condemned village has lots of new houses ( including those which appear to have state-of-the-art outside netties ) and more under construction . |
| 30 | I mean what I would ideally like is the society in which women could be both private and public people , and men too , so men would identify more with relationships in their families and so on and slightly less with work , and women less with the family and more with work , and I think that would make for much greater flexibility all round and I think children would benefit too . |