Example sentences of "more and [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their efforts were directed towards drawing more and more of the Christian life into the sacred time of the liturgy . |
| 2 | More and more of the public are looking for natural products and the industry could well have considerable untapped markets for a variety of produce . |
| 3 | Schools are being required to take on more and more of the full range of business functions . |
| 4 | Although Tiller still produced the Winter Gardens show every year , he delegated more and more of the work there to his assistant directors as he was so busy abroad . |
| 5 | Once the initial fright had subsided more and more of the children started to return and , apart from constant air-raid warnings which were more of a nuisance , schools were able to function normally . |
| 6 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 9 | It fits with a common experience of addiction , that of needing to do more and more of the drug just to keep from feeling bad . |
| 10 | Growing up , maturing , emerging into autonomy is the process of the child taking from the adult more and more of the responsibility for those actions which she does knowingly . |
| 11 | More and more of the farms are going over to pasteurized milk , their produce is sent to the cooperatives , the butter and the cheese no longer have the characteristic ripe flavours one used to expect . |
| 12 | More and more of the same . |
| 13 | As fast as the stuff disappeared into the centre so , on the far outside of the whirlpool , more and more of the dust clouds of outer space were captured and began their journey inwards — slowly at first , but always getting faster and faster . |
| 14 | This has certainly been the record industry strategy : in the last ten years the major companies have consolidated their control of the manufacture and distribution of records , tapes and videos while leaving more and more of the musical enterprise to the ‘ independents ’ . |
| 15 | In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such methods were more difficult to use ; but the press bureaux with which more and more of the foreign offices of Europe were now equipping themselves ( the Habsburg empire in 1879 , Russia in the first years of the twentieth century , Sweden in 1909 ) were used increasingly to channel information to foreign journalists and news agencies and thus , it was hoped , create a favourable climate of opinion . |
| 16 | More and more of the American leaders were coming to the view that the United States herself would become dangerously exposed unless Germany and Japan were at least contained and preferably defeated . |
| 17 | Almost a year since the end of the Gulf War , more and more of the British men and women who took part are asking for help in straightening out their lives . |
| 18 | Erm so what I 'm saying is that there is a partnership between the states and the federal government , there is no single fixed correct relationship between the central government and the state government , it changes from time to time er more and more of the cards are coming to the hands of the central government but you would , you would be wise not to underestimate the independence and the diversity of the American states which have a , a genuine er sense of , of local er democracy and difference er and states very frequently resist the federal government . |