Example sentences of "[adj -er] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 2 | The swordfish 's dorsal fin is very different to the sailfish 's , since it is high in front but much shorter as it curves towards the tail . |
| 3 | More recently formed Labrador Sea Water , with even lower temperature and salinity , should cool and freshen the North Atlantic still further as it circulates around the ocean in the coming decade . |
| 4 | Furthermore , during production the guitars are left to acclimatise at various stages , so the wood settles down even further as it metamorphoses into musical instruments . |
| 5 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 6 | The cykesound became a speck on the road , and grew bigger as it approached . |
| 7 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 8 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 9 | We created a revolutionary 24 valve , 3 litre V6 engine with a variable length inlet manifold , enabling the engine to breathe deeper as it goes faster . |
| 10 | And then , not much later as it seemed , there they were , father pushing the pram , a very happy little family . |
| 11 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 12 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 13 | It shot past the wizard 's head and he watched it grow smaller as it plummeted towards the circle of upturned muzzles . |
| 14 | Alexandra grew even crosser as it became obvious that Matthew had been invited in his own right . |
| 15 | He would then turn down the fell and begin to race , faster as it grew steeper , more furiously as the half-ton of slate threatened to catch him up and ( as happened regularly ) crush against him , until , blown with exhaustion , he reached the unloading bays at the foot of the fell . |
| 16 | Yet , poorer as it made him , he took a certain pride in keeping his wife . |
| 17 | V33 is a low-odour , solvent-free Total Treatment for Wood which has been introduced from France by Kent-based Liveron Waxes. this water-based treatment cures and prevents fungus and insect attacks as effectively as any other treatment on the market , but is much safer as it contains no Lindane , PCP or TBTO . |
| 18 | On the other hand , this degradation of the bench must be a slow process , so that the rate of cutting of a marine bench may be expected to become slower as it becomes wider . |
| 19 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 20 | He dialled Jo 's number in Rome , and grew lonelier and sadder as it rang on and on , unanswered . |
| 21 | After five minutes or so you will begin to see that your back is becoming flatter as it comes more in contact with the floor . |
| 22 | The dinner became noisier as it progressed but , because most of the shouted conversation was in Yek , Rostov confined himself to his food . |
| 23 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 24 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 25 | Thus , despite the difficulty of feeding a larger body , the survival value of size becomes greater as it gets colder . |
| 26 | South of where it joins the Urskoy the river is broad and impossible to cross , becoming steadily wider as it flows west towards Talabheim . |
| 27 | Together with evidence from boreholes drilled through continental-margin deposits , investigations using seismic stratigraphy have shown that most passive margins support a wedge of sediment which becomes gradually thinner as it passes seawards from continental to oceanic lithosphere ( Fig. 4.14 ) . |
| 28 | But still the fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise grew louder and louder as it came closer and closer . |
| 29 | A bat approaching a moth will sound louder and louder as it comes close , and the moth is sensitive to loudness . |
| 30 | then down the wind came the boom of the great stanchion-gun ; and after that sound another sound , louder as it neared ; a cry as of all the bells of Cambridge , and all the hounds of Cottesmore ; and overhead rushed and whirled the skein of terrified wild-fowl , screaming , piping , clacking , croaking , filling the air with the hoarse rattle of their wings , while clear above all sounded the wild whistle of the curlew , and the trumpet note of the great wild swan . |