Example sentences of "more [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , social work is likely to become more professional as training standards improve . |
| 2 | The tussle could hardly have been more evenly-matched as Drake and partner Jonathan Smith fought back from a set down to take a 6–7 6–3 7–6 victory in a rubber which featured only three service breaks ! |
| 3 | These possibilities , and from time to time actualities , of conflict may be observed in many different spheres : in the strains which arise from the redistribution of economic resources between industrial and developing countries , and from the scarcity of some natural resources , which will become more acute as industrialization proceeds throughout the world ; in the difficulties of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons ; in the more directly political struggles for power and prestige in some regions of the world ( for example , in the Middle East and among Latin American countries ) , and until recently between two nuclear superpowers . |
| 4 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 5 | Experts declared that the main cause of the pollution was nitrogen dioxide ( unlike the smogs in London during the 1950s , which were mainly caused by sulphur dioxide ) and warned that this form of pollution would become more prevalent as road traffic increases . |
| 6 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 7 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 8 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |
| 9 | The opportunities offered by the Medau system become daily more valuable as life for so many people demands less and less physical activity . |
| 10 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 11 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 12 | How marvellous , though , that she should grow more audacious as time goes on — the vastly public proposal and denunciations . |
| 13 | When marriage did take place , older brides were often preferred , as they tended to be both more useful as work partners , and have less childbearing years before them . |
| 14 | Why does threat behaviour become more complex as fighting becomes more dangerous ? |
| 15 | There was , however , a clearly marked tendency for this organisation to become more complex as time went on . |
| 16 | ‘ We have lost a lot of ponds all over the country , so the ones we do have are even more important as wildlife habitats . ’ |
| 17 | Client connectivity is more problematic as application requests from NT to UnixWare will have to be directed through the NetWare IPX/SPX protocol . |
| 18 | Tony Smith and his friends have undertaken a few short cross-country flights in VS and are getting more and more adventurous as confidence builds . |
| 19 | It becomes gradually more probable as lung area decreases below an optimum ( and as it increases above the same optimum , for different reasons connected with economic waste ) . |
| 20 | Another collective title , the Angry Young Men , was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description . |
| 21 | That it was becoming darker , more turbid as time went on , disturbed her . |
| 22 | Others have a mixture of feelings which tend to become more optimistic as time goes on , but at the initial discovery , pregnancy may seem like a disaster . |
| 23 | With much of the impact being in her delivery , Norte 's poetry has , until recently , been more legendary as performance art rather than as written verse . |
| 24 | Driver and pedestrian accidents are least frequent in mid life , but then become more common as age advances . |
| 25 | The enigma grew more ugly as darkness fell . |
| 26 | The need for an improvement in Mwafrika 's appearance grew more relevant as independence became certain and there was therefore less point in attacking colonial policies . |
| 27 | People are more frightened as unemployment rises and they have less money to spend . |
| 28 | Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light . |
| 29 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 30 | The rivermen were finding it hard ; the scramble for work was becoming more and more intense as family debts grew and many valued and treasured items found their way into the local pawnshops . |