Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The larger a firm becomes the more cost efficient it can become and hence prices can be kept below those competitors .
2 One would think that , after all that time , a movement that really desired increased pensions and had failed , would have changed its tactics … the stronger a movement becomes ‘ institutionally ’ the weaker it becomes as an instrument for the benefit of the people .
3 The longer that a person is deprived of oxygen the bluer a person becomes .
4 It is clear that the narrower a pulse becomes , the greater the bandwidth a system must possess in order to handle it properly .
5 Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown .
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