Example sentences of "more and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female . |
| 2 | If there is no blanket strategy that can be applied to all , then more and better individualised pain care is needed . |
| 3 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 4 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 5 | Abolitionists marked their respect for their heroes in both more and less personal forms . |
| 6 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 7 | The , the longer and more and less precise answer would be presumably , human psychology has evolved in such a way , as to allow us to make those kind of judgments that would normally be reliable . |
| 8 | Other indirect effects include the opening up by forest roads of hitherto inaccessible forests to cultivators , resulting in even more and often indiscriminate forest destruction . |
| 9 | As I explained , I 'm growing more and more forgetful . |
| 10 | The convicts became more and more upset , the guards were afraid , but they kept getting orders from above telling them to maintain these random violations of the equilibrium . |
| 11 | While the Headmaster and Mr Slipper were quite happy with all the arrangements , Mr Crangle was getting more and more upset . |
| 12 | I got more and more upset and worried . ’ |
| 13 | And then the Bible and Christianity became more and more central to the novel. , |
| 14 | The importance of majority voting will increase since more and more European economic and social legislation will be deemed necessary because of the single European market . |
| 15 | Aided by her Press Officer , Bernard Ingham , the media more and more present government policies as Mrs Thatcher 's . |
| 16 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 17 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 18 | And as his fingers fondled her gorgeous nether cheeks , so his kisses became more and more intimate . |
| 19 | In proportion , then , as we advance in the chronological sequence of his works , we find his material become less and less pastose , his touches more and more liquid and transparent , more like watercolour . |
| 20 | The persistance of literalist and puritanical thinking into an epoch that was growing more and more inimical to it was certainly one factor in the decline of faith in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | I had wanted to regain the weight in a controlled , steady way , but instead I find myself stuffing wildly ( mostly when I 'm babysitting ) : biscuits , chocolate , great hunks of cheese , cakes , pasties ; and I 'm feeling more and more anxious as the food runs out — I end up eating dog biscuits , and frozen cakes and Angel Delight powder and raw jelly and dry cereal . |
| 22 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 23 | Christina felt more and more uncomfortable . |
| 24 | I thought of this killer out on the empty , wild moor , and I felt more and more uncomfortable about my surroundings . |
| 25 | With me it was all too simple and evident , my behaviour — and I was a most law-abiding child — caused my parents pain , and as I could do nothing about it , certainly nothing to improve it , except to cease to exist , I grew more and more guilty . |
| 26 | ‘ The Church of England has been getting more and more liberal on the matter . |
| 27 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 28 | Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote . |
| 29 | And yet , paradoxically , she was , to Robert , more and more remote , more and more genuinely Islamic . |
| 30 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |