Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that has gathered gentler than rain |
| 2 | The Thatcher Government in particular has regarded older people as a source of income for redistribution to other poor and non-poor groups . ) |
| 3 | They view this building tradition as a merger of traits with Romano-British and Germanic origins , although Dixon ( 1982 ) has placed greater emphasis on the former . |
| 4 | Resource-based learning has placed greater importance on learning how to learn and the handling of information . |
| 5 | The very existence of such a high-profile federally-sponsored project has given greater confidence to planners elsewhere to adopt their own solutions to local problems . |
| 6 | Hirst , at twenty-seven the youngest of the four contenders , is the finalist who has attracted greater publicity in the last twelve months . |
| 7 | With the new jobs has come wider ownership . |
| 8 | With it has come greater variety and choice , as well as convenience and speed cooking . |
| 9 | It has won greater favour in the US than in Britain where it is generally regarded as conceding too much to a particular , and somewhat incoherent , philosophical system . |
| 10 | Times have changed and the world has grown colder and nastier . |
| 11 | This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger , and he has even carved gothic spires on its top . |
| 12 | It is a big job now which has grown bigger with each passing match . |
| 13 | The sky is grey and abysmal ; it has grown blacker since morning . |
| 14 | Since then the world has grown darker . |
| 15 | The look in her eyes has grown gayer and more desperate . |
| 16 | The players ' marquee has grown larger and more grand , with chandeliers installed this year . |
| 17 | D. The map on page 119 shows how Sheffield has grown larger and larger . |
| 18 | ‘ But then the world has grown smaller since Mr James cruised on his ocean liner . ’ |
| 19 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 20 | I feel that our love has grown stronger , and I know that I miss you , darling , even more than before , for I really need you , as I expect you divined long ago . |
| 21 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 22 | Her taste has changed as she has grown older . |
| 23 | By the time this younger generation has been correctly defined , it has grown older and replaced by some new unknown demographic quantity . |
| 24 | As he has grown older he has become more involved with the social content of his work yet he sees his relationship to the audience in very personal terms . |
| 25 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 26 | But America has always wanted Israel to give up some of the occupied territory , and has grown keener since the start of a desperate revolt by the occupied people . |
| 27 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 28 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 29 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 30 | ‘ This part of South London has seen better days , ’ said Finn , through a mouthful of bubble-gum . |