Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll get better at this as I get more practice . |
| 2 | By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept . |
| 3 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 4 | There does not seem to be this intense aggression in my aquarium , obviously the size of the tank does give quite a lot of room for manoeuvre , but as I said earlier , as I add more Emperors , a close watch will have to be kept on them . |
| 5 | As you get more energy back when two light nuclei fuse than it costs to get them together it would seem that we are bound to win . |
| 6 | Add to these lists each day as you get more data . |
| 7 | Some employers may encourage you to start with fewer hours than you think you can manage , with the intention of adding to these as you gain more confidence . |
| 8 | At first , this effect may only last for half an hour but , as you have more lessons , these feelings of lightness , balance and general ease within your body will extend for longer and longer periods . |
| 9 | As you complete more games and improve your skills the game gets more difficult , the Klingons get more intelligent . |
| 10 | As you complete more games and improve your skills the game gets more difficult , the Klingons get more intelligent . |
| 11 | Lee shook his head as she offered more tea . |
| 12 | She nodded , dicing with death once again as she swallowed more champagne . |
| 13 | Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point . |
| 14 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |
| 15 | And today — as we publish more evidence of their canoodling — the prospect of Andy and Fergie divorcing seems inevitable . |
| 16 | As we accept more responsibility , so we empower and enrich our lives . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's going down , the atmosphere of the school , as we have more staff of , if you do n't mind me saying it , lower calibre . |
| 18 | And we can add workstations to that virtual machine as we need more processing power . |
| 19 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 20 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 21 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 22 | As they get more money , or a new baby is born , they add what is called another roof , which basically means another room . |
| 23 | And as they use more plastic , chemicals and metals , so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous . |
| 24 | Then , as they discover more blocks and those of various shapes and sizes , building begins . |
| 25 | As they arrived more people wanted to know what was going on . |
| 26 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 27 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 28 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 29 | However , with cash in short supply , Dolphin has had to put some of its own SCI product development on hold for the time being , until , as it hopes more cash comes rolling in . |
| 30 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |