Example sentences of "more and [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I strolled along the narrow path with the anticipatory exhilaration a fine morning bestows , that quids-in glow of youth , confident that there is more and better to come . |
| 2 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 3 | Where blood was shed , the secular courts of the land came more and more to take an interest . |
| 4 | And it is a growth industry because its products , such as plastics , are being used more and more to replace raw materials such as wood , steel or natural fibres . |
| 5 | He felt strong and wanted more and more to reach somewhere that had less evidence of the patterning of Man . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 8 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 9 | They were also the women who went more and more to seek the aid of psychiatrists and marriage counsellors . |
| 10 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 11 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , much of this vast publicly available information resource is bibliographically ill-organised , is of very variable quality , and is frequently difficult to access or acquire The problems of accessing and acquiring such information have been greatly aggravated by the need for enterprises more and more to compete on a global basis ( compare , for example , the ‘ 1992 ’ initiative ; suddenly , we have to know all about Greece ! ) . |
| 13 | So the season continued and the World Championships in Rome began more and more to occupy my mind . |
| 14 | Instead , González came more and more to personify the new wave of 1980s socialism with the social largely left out . |
| 15 | Family and proprietary considerations still loomed so large that the Kaiser could in 1891 give orders for a mobilization to be carried out if his mother was insulted in Paris , yet it was also an age in which monarchs had more and more to personify national and even democratic causes . |
| 16 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We are just spending more and more to protect ourselves , ’ said partner David Harper . |
| 18 | The traditional music of the villages continued much as before , but less Zambian music was produced in the towns , where young musicians tended more and more to copy the popular music of Britain , the United States and Zaire . |
| 19 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 20 | Recently such speakers have tended more and more to disappear from sociolinguistic studies for a variety of reasons . |
| 21 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 22 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 23 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |