Example sentences of "and [adj -er] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The note got shorter and shorter the more he worked on it . |
| 2 | Light : Needs good light and the stronger the light available , the brighter and lusher the whorls grow . |
| 3 | ‘ It gets bigger and bigger every year . |
| 4 | In contrast with steps to tackle and ameliorate the economic and social forces shaping the despair and violence of the slums , such a protective remedy has an appealing element of immediacy and practicality : seemingly far better and surer the effect of outlays for security guards than the more distant hope from some rehabilitative expenditure in the inner city . |
| 5 | The front is even more striking — white with very strong black bands from side to side , becoming larger and thicker the further down the body they are . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'm getting smaller and smaller every second . ’ |
| 7 | The orbit of the moon is such that its gravitational pull is great one week , and smaller the next , then great again . |
| 8 | But it will not be obvious on a violin or even on the upper register of a ‘ cello because the higher pitched the sound , the faster and smaller the vibrations become . |
| 9 | the fraction 's getting smaller and smaller the piece you get is getting less and less . |
| 10 | She 's getting stronger , and angrier every day . ’ |
| 11 | With the 3-year-old and older a sticker chart is a useful incentive to using the lavatory correctly . |
| 12 | In severely ill children presenting to a referral hospital at 1670 m altitude the logistic regression prediction models we have developed indicate that for newborn infants and those up to 2 months of age history of cyanosis reported by the mother was the best predictor of hypoxaemia ; a respiratory rate of >=70/min,; retractions , and grunting were the best predictors in infants 3–11 months old ; and in children 12 months and older a respiratory rate of >=60/min; was the best predictor of hypoxaemia . |
| 13 | Conversely the more space left between the motifs , the fresher and calmer the pattern will appear . |
| 14 | And the bigger and sharper the spines , the longer this effect lasts . |
| 15 | Why do I Feel Better One Day and Worse the Next ? |
| 16 | " It gets worse and worse the further we go , " said Acorn . |
| 17 | Higher and higher the shaking hand pushed the skirts until I saw that she was wearing a pair of white calico drawers , and remembering the black lace French knickers with their little rosebud trimmings , I understood . |
| 18 | ‘ And the thing was , it got funnier and funnier every time he did it , ’ laughs Hislop . |
| 19 | Rhiannon now weighs 14 lbs and is getting bigger and stronger every day . |
| 20 | Sure enough , the closer they approached , the greater was the change in direction , clearly showing that the force got stronger and stronger the closer you got to the pebble . |
| 21 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 22 | The energy gets to you like a wire spring inside , being wound tighter and tighter the longer you 're there . |
| 23 | The rationale , let us call it Cash 's law , appears to be the sillier the Christian name the faster and nastier the bowler . |
| 24 | It is a fitting that is suited to both submersible and surface pumps , but the more powerful the pump the higher and wider the sprays produced , with a proportionate acceleration of the time lapse between each change of spray pattern . |
| 25 | The newspapers and media have invented the concept of the whizzkid and highflier the young hard-nosed businessman . |
| 26 | Otis Rush is still here , even if his talents are diminished , while Buddy Guy seems , if anything , to be playing younger and wilder every year . |
| 27 | I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it . |
| 28 | To go on thus is like walking up an ever-narrowing blind alley : the further you go the more difficult it is to turn about ; the more certain and greater the ultimate disaster . |
| 29 | The less the content , the less the risk , and greater the chance of infallibility . |
| 30 | Rebekah is growing stronger and cheekier every day . |