Example sentences of "more and more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 2 | She , in turn , would become more and more pathetic and martyr-like , like her mother . |
| 3 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 4 | They are beginning to let more and more hotel-type contracts , which makes sense — if we 've got a lot of senior management on a big site , they might as well pick up the housekeeping as well . ’ |
| 5 | FOOTBALL 'S new Premier League becomes more and more meaningless as millionaires vie with each other to buy the title . |
| 6 | As more and more individual scientists , for a variety of reasons , are converted to the new paradigm there is an ‘ increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances ’ . |
| 7 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 8 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 9 | The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Here dating becomes more and more problematical as the time spans become longer and longer . |
| 12 | If the bird becomes more and more agitated , it simply repeats the whistle more often and perhaps faster . |
| 13 | Bosses insisted she had not been shunted sideways , but insiders said management was making her ‘ more and more agitated ’ . |
| 14 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 15 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 16 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 17 | Secondly , changes in the labour market and the increased participation of women in employment has raised questions about the extent to which lone mothers — like more and more married mothers — should be expected to take paid employment ( Brown , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In potencies higher than the 12C the chances of even a single molecule of the original starting material still being present become more and more remote . |
| 20 | We just got more and more depressed . |
| 21 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |
| 22 | Hawkes 's polemical purpose becomes more and more apparent as the book develops : it is to undermine , not only established literary study , but liberal humanism itself . |
| 23 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 26 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 27 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 28 | The growing trend now is for more and more European golfers , and especially the heavyweights , to concentrate on playing the US circuit . |
| 29 | The equipotential lines become more and more similar to circles as they get nearer to either charge . |
| 30 | but you 're using so many different chemicals that it 's getting more and more confusing |