Example sentences of "to [be] more and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 2 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 3 | However , the response of governments is likely to be more and more dogmatic , and be driven by considerations of ‘ security ’ ; there will be little willingness by those in power to defer to differing views even when these are held by a majority . |
| 4 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 5 | ‘ To grow older for a woman is to be more and more wrapped in fog . ’ |
| 6 | British companies were , generally speaking , increasing in size through mergers and consolidation , so the stakes were that much higher and they could not afford to get things wrong ; they needed new management teams to run taken-over businesses ; industrial plants were growing in scale ; finance was becoming more complex ; business was tending to be more and more international ; American operations were penetrating many European markets ; and Britain was facing a host of unprecedented economic pressures and new competition with the post-war recovery of Germany and Japan . |
| 7 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Third , major landscape changes appeared to be more and more confined to a change in either tenure or farming type , and were clearly the result of well-thought-out decisions rather than the often piecemeal changes of the 1960s . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the official statistics show that , in the 1980s , lone parents have come to be more and more concentrated at the bottom of the income distribution ( House of Commons Social Security Committee , 1991 ) . |
| 10 | There seem to be more and more . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 12 | It was within this ideological framework which was always present but as outlined above became to be more and more publicly articulated by the Tories prior to 1979 that the operations of the justice system in England and Wales need to be considered . |
| 13 | There seemed to be more and more everyday . |
| 14 | As time went by , she seemed to be more and more different . |
| 15 | As such , they were the precursors of the Saxons , who came to be more and more associated with attacks on the coasts of northern Gaul and Britain . |
| 16 | I do n't like just doing research without communicating it , and I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure I think that 's very important . |
| 17 | And I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment , and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure , I think that 's very important . |
| 18 | So it 's going to be more and more moving into the real area as opposed to our fantasies about what the world 's like at this particular moment . |
| 19 | In fact radio is alive , kicking and expanding , and there are thousands of hours of radio going out , locally particularly , and every indication there are going to be more and more community radio stations in the future , and this is hungry time for material , so lots of opportunities in that particular way , at this stage . |