Example sentences of "become more [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A silent , evil place , becoming more ominous the deeper they went . |
| 2 | It used to be thought that as the practice of copying became more common the Romans devised an instrument similar to the modern pointing machine for making exact reproductions . |
| 3 | This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth . |
| 4 | Finding a partner can become more difficult the older people get , and retirement from work means one place less where there is the possibility of meeting someone new . |
| 5 | As services have become more selective the importance of the welfare rights movement has increased . |
| 6 | Those highly populated , finely detailed human landscapes — Bawden 's pullulating market places , pubs and railway stations — become more disquieting the closer one gets to them . |
| 7 | Each group becomes more inclusive the further we move up the hierarchy . |
| 8 | In fact , if the aposematic prey is rare , it is more heavily predated , and the proportion falls : if the aposematic prey is relatively frequent to begin with , it is favoured , and becomes more common The black and yellow caterpillars of the cinnabar moth are camouflaged when seen from a distance as they feed on their favoured ragwort . |