Example sentences of "more [conj] more [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melissa was becoming more and more irritated at the constant references to Bonard . |
| 2 | Mary is becoming more and more detached from any real awareness of the outside world . |
| 3 | Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered . |
| 4 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 5 | The pomeshchiks became more and more absorbed in their farms , and as these grew in size , military service for a minimal salary became less and less attractive . |
| 6 | Yet slowly , as she worked , became more and more absorbed in what she was doing , the memories faded . |
| 7 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 8 | Backed by the Emperor , Haussmann planned to bring fresh water to supply fountains and reservoirs by means of aqueducts , in preference to the use of the Seine which was itself becoming more and more contaminated . |
| 9 | It seems to me , from a number of recent papers ( and from common sense ) that the rare event is becoming more and more recognised as an important agent of recent sedimentation . |
| 10 | Norman got more and more lost in black music when he was a member of The Housemartins . |
| 11 | As the surface of the water advances towards you the colours of the sky will be more and more affected by the colour of the water itself , until finally below you will be a dark combination of the overhead sky and the rich liquid into which you are looking . |
| 12 | I really like this poem , I became more and more moved with it as I grew to understand it more and I think the poem definitely works and Owen conquers it subtly , approaching a big issue , but he wins in telling us his message . |
| 13 | Hal 's cooking was becoming more and more rushed , the fatty 's felt that they were going to become thin in a matter of seconds and the ‘ skinnys ’ were very hungry . |
| 14 | But uncomfortable signs are growing that the uneasy line between discipline and dissent — and often very justified and necessary dissent — is being more and more breached in favour of the former . |
| 15 | This is a sinister view of the world of simulacra and simulation described by Jean Baudrillard , the world in which people have the illusion of being actively hooked into vast information networks , whereas in fact they are only the passive recipients of processed data , more and more isolated in front of their televisions and their computer screens ( 1970:186–91 , 1981:121–31 ) . |
| 16 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 17 | Management training for ryokan operators and staff is more and more geared for western guests ' needs and comprehension . |
| 18 | However , the emergence of this pattern may also have been related to the growth of higher education itself , and its increasing involvement in professional fields in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; for it was the practice element which existed first , in the form of on-the-job training , and the preparatory theoretical elements which were added subsequently , as higher education became more and more involved . |
| 19 | from this then I think that in fact the they would be more and more involved the more sort of radical they 're going |
| 20 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 21 | All the same , her protests went unheeded , and each day that passed she could see Matthew becoming more and more influenced by old Luther . |
| 22 | International relations in Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the First World War were more and more influenced by several factors which , if not always new , were growing rapidly in importance . |
| 23 | Council housing is becoming more and more marginalised as the better off tenants move out and higher rents encourage others to exercise their right to buy . |
| 24 | As they talked about the perils and amusements of the blackout , Julia became more and more intrigued by Peter Suvarov 's ravishing bride . |
| 25 | There , troubled by the poverty of the peasants and his own involuntary role as a supporter of the imperial system , he became , he wrote , ‘ more and more engrossed with the single poetic theme of Life and Death ’ . |
| 26 | Certainly the telegraph was more and more relied on . |
| 27 | [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors . |
| 28 | ‘ To grow older for a woman is to be more and more wrapped in fog . ’ |
| 29 | He became more and more wrapped up in himself . |
| 30 | He got more and more entangled in committees of the ecumenical movement , which was on a rising tide of Christian hope , and which badly needed trained English academics to help . |