Example sentences of "and more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 More people travel further and more easily than ever before .
2 SPF ( which measures UVB protection ) is still the first priority as UVB rays are more dangerous , causing damage more quickly and more easily than UVA .
3 Travellers along the other road would recognise that , for the historical reasons identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , equity has in the past treated married women differently and more tenderly than other third parties who provide security for the debts of others .
4 Comparative sensitivity of different imaging techniques in detecting gall stone recurrence — Ultrasound detected gall stone recurrence earlier and more frequently than did either the trial criteria or oral cholecystectography alone ( Fig 3 ) .
5 As it contracts the atoms of the gas collide with each other more and more frequently and at greater and greater speeds — the gas heats up .
6 A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met .
7 We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage .
8 The job description should be reviewed annually , and more frequently if circumstances so require and where necessary amended , subject to any agreed requirements of consultation and notice and have regard to the teacher 's previous role , experience and potential .
9 Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself .
10 Under the scheme , discussions with appraisers are held every five years , and more frequently if requested by appraisers or appraisees .
11 They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on .
12 Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ?
13 But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making .
14 ‘ He will be softer , cuddlier and more environmentally and socially aware . ’
15 She said , as you said , they s she said they used less swearing and more please and thank yous .
16 Cos you 've probably found that already with maths have n't you that once there 's a little bit you do n't understand they start putting more and more on that you need to know that little bit for and you you do n't know it and you 're getting more and more lost and then it gets a bit late then .
17 ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert .
18 It was to take several years and unexpected pressures before general progress in this direction was achieved , but it is important to remember that there were views being canvassed in the CNAA and more widely that pointed towards a possible further ‘ collective resolution ’ .
19 In a long historical perspective , and more particularly since the rise of industrial capitalism , there has obviously been — accompanying the growth and internal differentiation of societies — an increase in the scale of government , in the degree of political intervention in the general conduct of social life and in organized political activity ; a growth of bureaucratic administration ; and the formation of a distinctive , now predominant type of political unit — the nation state .
20 My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire .
21 The birds hopped and sang for perhaps two minutes ; then the mechanism began to run down and the birds hopped more and more slowly and heavily , the twittering drew itself out in gasps .
22 Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour .
23 Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world .
24 It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale .
25 And she knew more and more clearly that she was beginning to care about him .
26 In your first few hours in a new place , while you 're still dazed , before you can even really believe you 've arrived , you see it more vividly and more clearly than you ever will again .
27 The speaker , with best of intentions went on repeating ‘ Edinburgh ’ more and more loudly and making his face more and more distorted .
28 Now despite years of steady disarmament they 're all talking about nuclear war again , and more intensely than ever before .
29 Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected .
30 If we make mistakes we will be punished more quickly and more effectively than any Northern Hemisphere team could equal .
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