Example sentences of "[verb] more [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be problems of ranking priorities here , becoming more acute as full employment of labour and means of production is approached . |
| 2 | Hearthwares argued over past skirmishes and hunts , the lords over family history and precedence , the arguments becoming more fantastic as they put away more ale . |
| 3 | The emphasis in the first two books is on oral/aural work with reading and writing becoming more central as students develop towards intermediate level in Destinations . |
| 4 | THE market for mains-signalling installations is becoming more varied as it grows . |
| 5 | Peter Fane has noticed that his customers ' demands are becoming more adventurous as they try to appear lusher and leafier than their rivals . |
| 6 | Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness . |
| 7 | That 's it , we need to follow a set of step lies , instructions becoming more difficult as you go on that what was intended . |
| 8 | In this context there is always room for some sharp operator to move up the industry hierarchy of market share , although this is probably becoming more difficult as large groups become consolidated and the industry generally matures . |
| 9 | But conventional management buy-ins , which are becoming more common as the supply of normal MBO transactions dries up , involve more risk , since the knowledge of the target 's internal workings is no greater than that available to a trade buyer . |
| 10 | These negative trends were becoming more common as people ‘ looked towards money ’ rather than socialist moral values , a situation the party leaders regretted but seemed unable to control . |
| 11 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 12 | By the end of 1988 , the boundaries were becoming more obvious as the situation became more tense . |
| 13 | Local society was becoming more polarised as smallholders sold up and moved elsewhere . |
| 14 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 15 | The changes that are taking place , especially in relation to bus passengers , are wide and varied and are becoming more important as each week goes by . |
| 16 | How marvellous , though , that she should grow more audacious as time goes on — the vastly public proposal and denunciations . |
| 17 | He saw Maurin grow more wretched as the story was unfurled . |
| 18 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 19 | The tasks of the poor law became more complex as parishes had to cope with , for example , trade recessions and outbreaks of infectious diseases , each affecting large numbers of people in the new towns and cities . |
| 20 | Somewhat in contrast to these findings about Thatcher and Kinnock , the visibility of all ‘ other ’ Conservative and Labour politicians ( taken in each case as a collective , unspecified ‘ other ’ ) became more predictable as the election approached . |
| 21 | Somewhat in contrast to these findings about Thatcher and Kinnock , the visibility of all ‘ other ’ Conservative and Labour politicians , taken in each case as a collective ‘ other ’ , became more predictable as the election approached . |
| 22 | In addition , ratings for the two main parties and their leaders became more predictable as the election approached while those for the Alliance and its leaders became less predictable . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Over the 1960s the issue became more stark as the underlying position of visible trade worsened . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 27 | The Catholic clergy became more exclusive as the Gregorian Reform was accomplished . |
| 28 | The promotional activities of dealers and certain critics became more brazen as the decade proceeded . |
| 29 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 30 | Henceforward the black vote had to be considered by every politician , and black leaders became more outspoken as they demanded an end to segregation . |