Example sentences of "more [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The promotional activities of dealers and certain critics became more brazen as the decade proceeded . |
| 2 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 3 | The temporary reputation achieved by the other types lasts longer and is more profitable as the discount factor tends to unity . |
| 4 | Moreover , peasant land hunger grew ever more acute as the population swelled . |
| 5 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 6 | Digital cameras will become more popular as the quality of image improves and the price falls , but it will probably be well into the next century before they become firmly established . |
| 7 | It may seem pessimistic , even morbid , to think about a child , parents , a partner or ourselves becoming more and more dependent as the years go by . |
| 8 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 9 | This method of heating has the advantage of being more economical as no heat is wasted keeping water hot and none is lost in the pipes between the hot water cylinder and the hot tap . |
| 10 | The wind was behind as he moved , the mist more noticeable as the trail wound downwards , the line of escarpment was broken by the ploughed furrows of tender young lain trees . |
| 11 | The study of politics , and ideas in general , which has so far lagged behind , must ultimately be incorporated into total history , and will become more accessible as the techniques of quantitative history grow in sophistication . |
| 12 | The editing bench becomes more crowded as the basic set-up is expanded to include an edit controller , which is used to operate both video machines automatically , and an enhancer to improve the picture quality of the transfer . |
| 13 | The result is that the piece seems to become more polyphonic as the listener can more easily hear the lines . |
| 14 | It was still hot and the seats grew more uncomfortable as the night wore on . |
| 15 | ‘ Lawrence actually wrote three versions of Lady Chatterley , called Lady Chatterley John Thomas and Lady Jane Lady Chatterley 's Lover , and Clifford becomes more vicious as the books go on . |
| 16 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 17 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 18 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 19 | Over the 1960s the issue became more stark as the underlying position of visible trade worsened . |
| 20 | Charman 's curt reviews got slightly more excitable as the year drew on . |
| 21 | The likelihood was that Japanese resistance would become more ferocious as the battles approached the home islands with heavy casualties being incurred if Japan was invaded . |
| 22 | Ruth could feel the tightening of her heart as Fernando gathered her into his arms , his kisses more urgent as the time slipped perilously away . |
| 23 | Public relations is the most vital business of the royal household , the expression of an instinct for self-preservation which has grown steadily more sophisticated as the years have rolled by and the appetite of the media has grown more voracious . |
| 24 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 25 | The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests . |
| 26 | By the end of 1988 , the boundaries were becoming more obvious as the situation became more tense . |
| 27 | The girl 's every smile , every glance , was filled with adoration that grew more and more obvious as the evening went on and as her consumption of champagne increased . |
| 28 | It should be remembered , however , that all old people tend to become a little more self-centred as the years go by . |
| 29 | I think we have got a bit more confident as the Project has gone on and said to them : well really , you ought not to be buying this . |
| 30 | Namibia is particularly interesting because of its " desert " elephants and black rhinos , which have suffered a recent upsurge in poaching and may become even more vulnerable as the country moves towards independence . " |