Example sentences of "[vb pp] more [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 2 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 3 | Mr Brownlow filled the mind of his adopted son with knowledge , and as he watched the boy grow up , he was reminded more and more of his old friend , Oliver 's father . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the past years , Mr. Attorney , you have let more and more of your other work go to outside firms , so that you could concentrate on one particular client . ’ |
| 5 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 6 | The ‘ heavies ’ all carried more or less the same picture of a statuesque blonde , at first sight naked , standing on the rostrum , her arm outstretched in the direction of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen , whose incredulous , even leery expression , was later to be the cause of much hilarity . |
| 7 | The business of designing machines , processes and systems can be pursued more or less independently of the properties of people . |
| 8 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 9 | The sprint classic at Dunmore , now worth £10,000 to the winner , has attracted more and more entries from the south . |
| 10 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 11 | As the weeks had gone by the other girl had dropped more and more blatant hints about the fact that she was having an affair with her employer . |
| 12 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 13 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 14 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 15 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 16 | The front pair point slightly forward from the forehead and are positioned more or less between the eyes . |
| 17 | The modern science of militarism renders wars between ‘ civilised ’ Powers too costly , and the rapid growth of effective internationalism in the financial and great industrial magnates [ sic ] , who seem destined more and more to control national politics , may in future render such wars impossible . |
| 18 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 19 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 20 | Since an expanding post-war economy stimulated immigration into Britain , governments have imposed more and more severe restrictions on entry . |
| 21 | Since then , the hierarchy has met more or less three times per year , but usually in secret sessions . |
| 22 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |
| 23 | The re the essence of was they made more or less the customers ' requirements . |
| 24 | As a result , the actual discovery was made more or less simultaneously by others . |
| 25 | Likewise David Hart , General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers , who came up with the poetic gem : ‘ The Council is being made more and more the poodle of centralised government . ’ |
| 26 | Both Russia and France were thus made more and more aware of their loneliness . |
| 27 | He joined a firm of solicitors specializing in show-business contract work , became a partner within five years and thereafter just made more and more money . |
| 28 | Both , perhaps , have selected more or less random examples to illustrate the flexibility of trust wordings . |
| 29 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 30 | And , in the country at large , the administration is seen more and more as a high-tax collector . |