Example sentences of "get more and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 2 | It 's got more and more popular strangely enough . |
| 3 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 4 | The answer is yes , but the mathematics gets more and more tedious . |
| 5 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |
| 6 | I wo n't feel ‘ complete ’ until we have at least one more baby — but I dare n't bring up the subject very often as my husband just gets more and more adamant . |
| 7 | We do n't pressurise the horse so that it gets more and more upset : remember , it will remember ! |
| 8 | It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’ |
| 9 | And as as it goes one she gets more and more permanent . |
| 10 | Deep down I get more and more frightened . |
| 11 | but you 're using so many different chemicals that it 's getting more and more confusing |
| 12 | But nevertheless , quietly , the community is getting more and more involved and having a bigger say at that level . |
| 13 | Cos you 've probably found that already with maths have n't you that once there 's a little bit you do n't understand they start putting more and more on that you need to know that little bit for and you you do n't know it and you 're getting more and more lost and then it gets a bit late then . |
| 14 | getting more and more intrigued by this and I 'd like to you a question to which I genuinely do n't know the answer . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | almost see him sort of getting more and more annoyed just because she wo n't accept what he says . |
| 17 | erm local government , and I regret this , is probably going that way in that the demands upon Councillors are getting more and more , and for various reasons it is getting more and more difficult to find now in local government what I would call the amateur who who I think predominated in it , certainly outside the cities , up to nineteen seventy four . |
| 18 | But what they 've done is , they 've actually dis distorted the rules on P E Ps as time 's gone along and the Chancellor 's allowed them to do it , and the distortions are getting more and more elaborate , and er I think they keep knocking on the revenue door and saying er we , we 've designed this one , is this okay ? |
| 19 | Secondly are we going to cave in to French blackmail again and what will it cost us , and thirdly if we 're going to have even more people going to Strasbourg or to Brussels or to anywhere else , is n't it about time we tried to save the people of Britain who are getting more and more worried and concerned and perplexed about E C , particularly in places like Harrow where they take a special interest in public affairs . |
| 20 | It 's getting more and more important as it goes . |
| 21 | So things are getting more and more fraught with the folks back home who are determined to have him married . |
| 22 | We just got more and more depressed . |
| 23 | She knew that if she did n't speak Carla would get more and more nervous , eventually breaking the heavy silence herself . |
| 24 | You can get more and more outrageous if you wish . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , jumping up , and beginning to walk up and down , ‘ it 's the story of this society , where everyone begins to get more and more aware of its real nature , and … ’ |
| 26 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |