Example sentences of "[vb past] more [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |
| 2 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 3 | Third , the large number of commercial expeditions joining in the hunt for the maritime fur resources of the far East and the North Pacific drew more and more merchants , promyshlenniki and ordinary peasants into those far-flung regions . |
| 4 | As this work proceeded they began to include discussions of ever-earlier periods , and therefore they moved more and more into the field of anthropology . |
| 5 | The number of consultants overseas continued to grow and the emphasis of the business moved more and more to Europe . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 8 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 9 | Imperceptibly , slowly but definitely the eyes of my mind focussed more and more on that eye in the desert , Al Ain . |
| 10 | They gradually demonstrated more and more evidence of a defocusing of attention as the task went on , consistent with the view that although performance was not disrupted by lapses , habituation was leading to a marked drop in arousal level in these subjects . |
| 11 | Compared with unoperated controls , women after hysterectomy were more likely to consider themselves constipated ; they also strained more and admitted more often to bloating and feelings of incomplete evacuation . |
| 12 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 13 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 14 | You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ? |
| 15 | Then , as Mike became more and more the lead guitarist , I played more and more bass . |
| 16 | As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted . |
| 17 | Instead , González came more and more to personify the new wave of 1980s socialism with the social largely left out . |
| 18 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The denunciations of dangerous new ideas in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis are intelligible enough , but by now they were almost bound to be ineffective , and as the intellectual viability of ultramontanism crumbled , the now unprotected power structure surrounding the papal monarchy came more and more into open and criticizable view . |
| 20 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Where blood was shed , the secular courts of the land came more and more to take an interest . |
| 23 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 24 | He placed his hopes first in Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , to whom he dedicated An Order of Household Instruction ( 1596 ) , and then on James VI , to whom he appealed more or less directly in The Plea of the Innocent ( 1602 ) , an account of the variable fortunes of the godly cause under Elizabethan rule . |
| 25 | He fell in love with the man , the political doubts about sexuality and disability came later as he learnt more and his mind slowly opened and then contracted with knowledge that proved to be no salvation . |
| 26 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 27 | In the last few days before the coup , Mossadeq assumed more and more dictatorial powers . |
| 28 | The prices seemed more or less the same as those in London at the time I 'd left — a box of matches or a bar of Cadbury 's chocolate cost a penny . |
| 29 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 30 | For a few years the two seemed more or less equal , but after 1968 Kosygin seemed to be losing authority . |