Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 2 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 3 | At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle . |
| 4 | And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas ! |
| 5 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 6 | His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance . |
| 7 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 8 | ‘ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe . ’ |
| 9 | Examples are our economy , which becomes more and more a credit economy , or our science , in which most scholars must use innumerable results of other scientists which they can not examine . |
| 10 | As the Quality Improvement Process becomes more and more a part of C&P 's culture , quality education will naturally become more integrated with the mainstream training programmes at all levels . |