Example sentences of "more and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , if fertile , those mutants mated to make more and even stranger mutants . |
| 2 | We may in fact know more and not less about a fictional character than about most real people of our acquaintance . |
| 3 | Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative . |
| 4 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 5 | Gayle Rubin has productively suggested that the whole idea of having more and less acceptable areas of consensual sexual activity is one of the concepts which ensures that the oppression of sexual minorities will continue . |
| 6 | Underlying this , was the idea that if the more and less able pupils used different strategies these could be identified . |
| 7 | Hence there was no difference between these more and less able children in the strategy they used to add . |
| 8 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
| 9 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 10 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 11 | She , in turn , would become more and more pathetic and martyr-like , like her mother . |
| 12 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 13 | They are beginning to let more and more hotel-type contracts , which makes sense — if we 've got a lot of senior management on a big site , they might as well pick up the housekeeping as well . ’ |
| 14 | FOOTBALL 'S new Premier League becomes more and more meaningless as millionaires vie with each other to buy the title . |
| 15 | As more and more individual scientists , for a variety of reasons , are converted to the new paradigm there is an ‘ increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances ’ . |
| 16 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 17 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 18 | The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants . |
| 19 | Moreover , if we bring to this common confusion the elementary historical observation that these presumptive classes of ‘ art ’ and ‘ sub-art ’ or ‘ non-art ’ tend to shift ( all novels , once , would have been in the downgrading classes ; particular classes of novel , for example ‘ science fiction ’ , move from one side of the divide to another , or are straddled across it ; cinema films are ‘ commercial popular culture ’ but then some films are ‘ high art ’ ) , we become more and more certain that we must refuse that beguiling invitation to leave aside ‘ sociological categories ’ and move to ‘ the works of art themselves ’ . |
| 20 | Here dating becomes more and more problematical as the time spans become longer and longer . |
| 21 | If the bird becomes more and more agitated , it simply repeats the whistle more often and perhaps faster . |
| 22 | Bosses insisted she had not been shunted sideways , but insiders said management was making her ‘ more and more agitated ’ . |
| 23 | Add to the enlarged programme of prison building , the feeding and housing of more and more convicted prisoners , the costs of the exploding remand population , and expenditure on the justice system presents a stark contrast with the swingeing cutbacks of other areas in the public sector . |
| 24 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 25 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 26 | Secondly , changes in the labour market and the increased participation of women in employment has raised questions about the extent to which lone mothers — like more and more married mothers — should be expected to take paid employment ( Brown , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | As the donor becomes more and more concerned at lack of action the recipient country staff become more and more dubious that the project is really in their national interest , and may even start discussions with another whose conditions may be perceived as less onerous . |
| 28 | In potencies higher than the 12C the chances of even a single molecule of the original starting material still being present become more and more remote . |
| 29 | We just got more and more depressed . |
| 30 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |