Example sentences of "more [adj] as the " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The result is that the piece seems to become more polyphonic as the listener can more easily hear the lines . |
| 13 | It was still hot and the seats grew more uncomfortable as the night wore on . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 16 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Over the 1960s the issue became more stark as the underlying position of visible trade worsened . |
| 19 | Charman 's curt reviews got slightly more excitable as the year drew on . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 24 | The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests . |
| 25 | By the end of 1988 , the boundaries were becoming more obvious as the situation became more tense . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It should be remembered , however , that all old people tend to become a little more self-centred as the years go by . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . " |
| 30 | You should continue to lose weight and to feel more and more healthy as the weeks go by . |