Example sentences of "[adj -er] and [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The note got shorter and shorter the more he worked on it . |
| 2 | ‘ It gets bigger and bigger every year . |
| 3 | And the bigger and sharper the spines , the longer this effect lasts . |
| 4 | Rhiannon now weighs 14 lbs and is getting bigger and stronger every day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Light : Needs good light and the stronger the light available , the brighter and lusher the whorls grow . |
| 8 | The rationale , let us call it Cash 's law , appears to be the sillier the Christian name the faster and nastier the bowler . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'm getting smaller and smaller every second . ’ |
| 11 | the fraction 's getting smaller and smaller the piece you get is getting less and less . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | " It gets worse and worse the further we go , " said Acorn . |
| 15 | The pectoral fins are also longer and all the fins are more pointed . |
| 16 | ‘ And the thing was , it got funnier and funnier every time he did it , ’ laughs Hislop . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rebekah is growing stronger and cheekier every day . |
| 20 | Yet nobody knows how people will react if some suddenly get a lot richer and some a lot poorer . |
| 21 | It is true there are forms of the palmette which look a little like acanthus but I would not say that they are necessarily earlier and that the acanthus developed out of the palmette . |
| 22 | These are smaller-bodied than the ‘ O ’ series — about an inch narrower and half an inch shallower — and the necks are slightly narrower too , being 43mm at the nut instead of the standard 45mm . |
| 23 | Conversely the more space left between the motifs , the fresher and calmer the pattern will appear . |