Example sentences of "became more and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long after the lorry driver left , the water became more and more acid and alarms went off . |
| 2 | It just grew and grew — I related to it more and found that the repertoire became more and more slide , so now the set is about 70% slide . |
| 3 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 4 | As the months and years passed , Harriet Tremayne became more and more of a recluse , her whole attention concentrated on her granddaughter . |
| 5 | Many village economies became more and more market orientated , but much of this increasingly commercialized production went untaxed , or was only lightly taxed . |
| 6 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 7 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |