Example sentences of "more [adj] you [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more profitable you help to make it , the more people will be kidnapped in the future . ’ |
| 2 | The more television you watch the more depressed you seem to be . |
| 3 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 4 | ‘ The more you know , ’ he says wistfully , ‘ the more despondent you feel . ’ |
| 5 | To get out of this pattern and to become more assertive you need to learn to like and value yourself . |
| 6 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 7 | The more clever you try to be the more ineffective you become . ’ |
| 8 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 9 | More likely you rot as a tutor in High Wycombe or somewhere like Hatherley School of Fine Art , teaching the talentless children of the rich . |
| 10 | You will find that the more confident you become , the more you will be able to enjoy the different relationships you have with those around you — and the happier you will be . |
| 11 | You mention the prevention of the equal user five and ten percent level , right , but bear in mind that the more confident you want to , to be about inference I E the smaller the significance level , right , the , the lower is the power of the test . |
| 12 | It 's a good approximation , but it 's not true , cos the more current you put through , the resistance goes , the temperature goes up , so the resistance changes . |
| 13 | Thing tho , but that one where they had to knock people out I reckon the least you looked mm , the more casual you look , you get in . |
| 14 | I think the warmer you are , the more lethargic you get . |
| 15 | Colour baths are a diluted form of permanent colour and cover up to 50% grey , but the more grey you have the more noticeable the regrowth will be . |
| 16 | It 's like being caught in huge sticky web – the more you struggle , the more entangled you get . |
| 17 | The more complicated you make the issues , the more the basic objections become obscured . |
| 18 | The more angry you get |
| 19 | It is probably a matter of degree of accommodation : the more you accommodate an idea the more committed you become to an acceptance of its validity . |
| 20 | The more ridiculous you make the association the easier it will be to recall . |
| 21 | The more clever you try to be the more ineffective you become . ’ |
| 22 | You see it becomes tougher , you see it becomes tougher , , it becomes tougher the more successful you become . |
| 23 | Indeed , the more heroic you make your hero the more you will need moments of human weakness to make it easy for readers to have that sympathetic identification . |
| 24 | Indeed and one of the points can be more difficult you do n't know |
| 25 | The only difference is that , the fewer roses you have space for , the more certain you have to be that the varieties you grow give the greatest possible pleasure , for the longest possible period and with the most resistance against pest and disease . |
| 26 | The more efficient you become the more likely you are to retain the rabbiting rights for the future . |
| 27 | They 've , there with lycra but , there kind of more cheap you know let me get these . |
| 28 | Naturally these rates are variable according to hours flown and individual costs , but generally the more flying you do the lower the all-in hourly rate becomes . |
| 29 | ‘ The more flying you do , the lower the hourly rate ’ says Keith Curry ( letter below ) . |
| 30 | I think er a lot of it has to do with confidence , the more confidence you get the quieter driving erm , I 'm afraid the more aggressive you become whether your a man or a woman but er quiet . |