Example sentences of "and more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to the study , the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared . |
| 32 | IF the explanation of the evolution and distribution of the lion , tiger and leopard is correct , then the leopard spread out further and more successfully than the other two members of its genus . |
| 33 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 34 | He argued that the bread and wine somehow coexisted with the body and blood , and more importantly that the miracle occurred because of the presence of the faithful and not as a result of the magical powers of the priest . |
| 35 | And more importantly than that , what was a Pakistani doing in a position of power and influence in a publishing house ? |
| 36 | ‘ They will give us nothing without a problem on Saturday and every mistake we make will be punished more quickly and more heavily than any Five Nations opponents would manage . ’ |
| 37 | And in the end the nautiloids even survived the ammonites , the molluscan group that evolved more rapidly and more spectacularly than any other . |
| 38 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 39 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 40 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 41 | She answers him sternly and literally , but talks a great deal more and more fluently than usual . |
| 42 | But now more and more maybe cos they 're taking early retirement or getting made redundant I mean it 's the fellers is n't it ? |
| 43 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 44 | He had achieved it more easily and more quickly than ever he had expected . |
| 45 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 46 | This would result in his rhythms running more slowly when he was interested and more quickly when he was bored ( because he would go to bed earlier due to the lack of something interesting to do and so require less sleep ) . |
| 47 | We are all familiar with the fact that the days of our childhood seemed to stretch out , passing more and more quickly as we grew . |
| 48 | Mrs Hollidaye was there too , and more gently than Gloria asked , ‘ Were there any more eggs in there , did you notice ? |
| 49 | ‘ This government has taken Britain into Europe further and more irrevocably than any previous government . |
| 50 | Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place , but reluctantly and more gradually than now seems desirable . |
| 51 | Now , I conceive that a plan of the kind which I have sketched … would answer the purpose , and more especially as it would give the honour due to the focus of all our liberties , of that regulated freedom which we hope will overspread the world . |
| 52 | And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx . |
| 53 | It seems amazing today , and more especially because there was no torture in Lancashire , that Alizon confessed . |
| 54 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 55 | Such participation in decisions , leading to job satisfaction , might motivate the subordinates to work harder and more efficiently and effectively , to achieve the goals of the organisation . |
| 56 | The bank had ‘ provided earlier and more prudently than others and slimmed down quicker ’ , Mr Thomas added . |
| 57 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 58 | The teams waited in company ranks , to do what the British infantry has always excelled at : firing aimed shots faster and more accurately than the enemy , in any conditions . |
| 59 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 60 | Until now , computers have improved efficiency by storing and manipulating information faster and more accurately than people . |