Example sentences of "more [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , social work is likely to become more professional as training standards improve . |
| 2 | The promotional activities of dealers and certain critics became more brazen as the decade proceeded . |
| 3 | Given that this was a central and crucial part of the film 's argument , the error is even more revealing as to the lack of care taken . |
| 4 | Martin 's steps grew slower , more hesitant as he passed the bank , the post office , the chemist and , finally , the art shop . |
| 5 | Oil is easier to obtain and to transport , and it has the advantage of being more homogenous as well as containing hydrocarbons with a higher hydrogen to carbon ratio . |
| 6 | Answer guide : These expenses are more controversial as there is a need to establish what is a business expense and what is not . |
| 7 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 8 | His foot and leg movements improved immeasurably , and his walking gait became more normal as he learned to swing his leg in the right pattern . |
| 9 | The tussle could hardly have been more evenly-matched as Drake and partner Jonathan Smith fought back from a set down to take a 6–7 6–3 7–6 victory in a rubber which featured only three service breaks ! |
| 10 | MAKING money has suddenly become much more profitable as recently-created countries wanting to establish their newly-won independence start issuing their own currency . |
| 11 | The temporary reputation achieved by the other types lasts longer and is more profitable as the discount factor tends to unity . |
| 12 | The situation here is the more acute as historic town gardens retaining important features are very rare in Britain . |
| 13 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 14 | Moreover , peasant land hunger grew ever more acute as the population swelled . |
| 15 | There could be problems of ranking priorities here , becoming more acute as full employment of labour and means of production is approached . |
| 16 | The problem of retaining independence will become more acute as voluntary bodies are drawn increasingly into service provision as the agents of local authorities , as Caring for People suggests . |
| 17 | These possibilities , and from time to time actualities , of conflict may be observed in many different spheres : in the strains which arise from the redistribution of economic resources between industrial and developing countries , and from the scarcity of some natural resources , which will become more acute as industrialization proceeds throughout the world ; in the difficulties of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons ; in the more directly political struggles for power and prestige in some regions of the world ( for example , in the Middle East and among Latin American countries ) , and until recently between two nuclear superpowers . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 19 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 20 | We become more long-sighted as we grow older , and our glasses need to be more powerful . |
| 21 | Against Sri Lanka it was even more humiliating as they lost the Test by five wickets and both one-day internationals by embarrassing margins . |
| 22 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 23 | Having a long soak in the tub is enjoyable and therapeutic : your muscles relax , your mind feels more tranquillised as you let go after the stresses of the day . |
| 24 | Digital cameras will become more popular as the quality of image improves and the price falls , but it will probably be well into the next century before they become firmly established . |
| 25 | They 're becoming ever more popular as tools to repay mortgages in place of endowment policies , while some of the more adventurous plan managers are also building PEPs into school fee and retirement planning . |
| 26 | Justifications were forthcoming , and became more and more adequate as better and better telescopes were constructed and as optical theories of their functioning were developed . |
| 27 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 28 | These demographic forecasts for the numbers of older people are much more reliable as these people are already born . |
| 29 | These subsequences were usually only one or two words in length , and ( … ) appeared no more reliable as predictors than the large number of incorrect one- and two-word sequences . |
| 30 | The Chancellor could not have been more clear as to how , in his view , matters would move forward from the basis of a currency union . |