Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against Sri Lanka it was even more humiliating as they lost the Test by five wickets and both one-day internationals by embarrassing margins . |
| 2 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 3 | They are becoming increasingly more important as they want to er and try to impose policy on travellers , and therefore price is becoming much more of an issue with them . |
| 4 | Marking their biggest leap forward since perhaps ‘ This Nation 's Saving Grace ’ , the ‘ Extricate ’ album demonstrated The Fall 's almost unique ability to become yet more extraordinary as they become less esoteric . |
| 5 | Marking their biggest leap forward since perhaps ‘ This Nation 's Saving Grace ’ , the ‘ Extricate ’ album demonstrated The Fall 's almost unique ability to become yet more extraordinary as they become less esoteric . |