Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This overall effect is the product of the income elasticity which is usually negative , confirming that leisure is a normal good ( as income rises more leisure is ‘ bought ’ and fewer hours of work supplied ) and a positive substitution elasticity . |
| 2 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 3 | Jimmy Carter 's election as President means more concern about human rights and reduced US support for repressive regimes in Latin America . |
| 4 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 5 | She nodded as Madge offered more tea and reached out a podgy hand for another piece of shortbread but the injustice still rankled . |
| 6 | Within three years of introducing its scheme , and as schools gain more experience of delegation , each LEA must aim to reduce this limit to the lower one of 7 per cent . |
| 7 | The other problem is that as companies shed more labour to remain competitive , the fewer people there are who have real spending power and that in itself will be a major inhibiting factor on recovery . |
| 8 | Consider again the natural harmonic series ( mentioned in Chapter 10 , ‘ Free Diatonicism ’ ) : the most consonant intervals are in the low registers , well apart , and as intervals become more dissonant they move into higher registers , where dissonance is hardly noticed . |
| 9 | As basses gain more strings and bassists push playing horizons further and further apart , Hartke 's technology is better placed than most to take advantage of the situation , especially as they reinforce this tonal definition with their use of smaller drivers . |
| 10 | Many of the courses are privately owned and out of bounds to casual visitors , but this is no problem as Florida has more golf courses than any other state — 930 . |
| 11 | And , just as failure encourages more failure , success encourages further success ; |
| 12 | International : Third ceasefire in Bosnia as troops seize more towns |
| 13 | As people have more leisure , they also need better facilities for sport . |
| 14 | As people buy more objects , they throw more away . |
| 15 | Assessment time has doubled , said one Lincolnshire social worker who predicted the authority 's petrol budget would rise dramatically as staff make more visits to clients . |
| 16 | We can expect , in the next decade , to see more sophisticated hardware and software produced as users become more expert and practised in the best ways of using computers in the learning process . |
| 17 | In turn , such attitudes must inevitably remain indeterminate , so long as history has more roads down which to stumble . |
| 18 | The number of plastic trays stolen from outside shops has risen to two million a year as thieves find more uses for them — dog and cat baskets , shelving , car boot sales and plant holders . |