Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sessions just got better and better . |
| 2 | Flat braid usually looks better if hand-sewn as lines of machine sewing may spoil the finished effect . |
| 3 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 4 | The movie progresses in nine yearly stages from 1981 through to 1989 , with AIDS gradually looming larger and larger until it finally seems to dominate everything else . |
| 5 | ‘ Many women start adding highlights as teenagers then get blonder and blonder — it 's like an addiction , ’ says colourist Bonnie Hundt . |
| 6 | ‘ These curses certainly sound better than the more common swearing you tend to hear in prisons . ’ |
| 7 | Cats did not rate quite as high on her scale of things worth fighting for as , say , dolphins , but their stock certainly stood higher than that of the middle-aged , white , heterosexual male . |
| 8 | His briefcase just got heavier and heavier ! |
| 9 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 10 | Immediately afterwards the colour begins to return and , as it is used , the mark of the pen progressively becomes richer so it draws in a graduated fashion . |
| 11 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 12 | Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch . |
| 13 | ‘ The vocabulary of broadcasters today gets smaller and smaller . |
| 14 | Fidelma 's Irish accent always grew thicker when she was sewed with indignation , and Timothy could n't always tell what she was talking about , but his aunt knew . |
| 15 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 16 | The price of petrol thus has to reflect the cost of a single-occupant trip by bus or rail , so that private motoring only becomes cheaper if the car has more than one occupant . |
| 17 | Yet , although the reformers have been floundering , the chances of reform suddenly look better than ever . |
| 18 | Bands usually look better if a few needles at the edges are knitted in stocking stitch which will roll and give a neat firm edge . |
| 19 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 20 | And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do . |
| 21 | And Dexter had watched Blanche slowly become calmer and more stoic about the future . |
| 22 | In polar regions , as the heat is lost to the atmosphere the surface water naturally gets denser and it sinks and it spreads at some level in the ocean into the rest of the world ocean . |
| 23 | The bond thus becomes weaker and the bond enthalpies decrease . |
| 24 | Seven minutes left , plus a while longer breathing staler and staler air . |
| 25 | ‘ But my poor right nipple just got sorer and sorer . |
| 26 | ‘ Rich and famous families usually behave worse than less important families , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Moreover , by the 1980s earnings still remained lower than average , and pay rates were in the bottom quartile , especially for non-skilled manual and clerical workers ( RENFE 1984b : 169–71 ; 1984a : 38 ) . |
| 28 | every new economic order creates new forms of state constitution and new rules for demarcating political structures … with the development of the capitalist mode of social production and the extension of the national cultural community … the tendency to national unity on the basis of national education gradually becomes stronger than the particularistic tendency of the disintegration of the old nation , based upon common descent , into increasingly sharply differentiated local groups . |
| 29 | It claims that the decision of the US National Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1980 to suspend all bilateral symposia , seminars and workshops involving the Soviet Academy , shows how actions often speak louder than words with the mammoth Soviet bureaucracy . |
| 30 | The themes of the climax of After Strange Gods now emerge further as we are presented with industrial London , its unemployment , and those collapsing City Churches which had previously claimed his attention . |