Example sentences of "more [adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ? |
| 2 | And in the Muslim world , among people at large , the war may become ever more unpopular as it looks increasingly punitive and costly in terms of Arab life . |
| 3 | When partially cooked , regular pasta has a slightly transparent look , and becomes whiter and more opaque as it finishes cooking . |
| 4 | In simple language , the signal becomes vastly more powerful as it passes through this type of network . |
| 5 | It 's getting more and more important as it goes . |
| 6 | Although use of the IUD and condom has increased , especially among educated women , the rise of sterilization is much more important as it marks an almost certain end to childbearing ( table 4.3 ) . |
| 7 | Henry was the son of Antoine de Bourbon and , more important as it turned out , of Jeanne d'Albret , a very alarming woman who became , first , Queen of Navarre , and then , having abjured her Catholicism , a bloodthirstily militant Calvinist . |
| 8 | However , predicting what proportion of the total population the older age groups ( or any other subset of the population ) will represent is more problematic as it depends upon the number of children future generations produce . |
| 9 | The prospect of genetic intervention is much more appealing as it gets to the core of the problem . |
| 10 | Now that 's when the movement was erm mainly underground , it was erm s organization and working together er in a sort of a covert manner , things were very secretive er and then after June it became more open as it became , the , the er movement became more accepted or well known , it became difficult to continue it underground so it became more open . |
| 11 | The sexual abuse of children is known , unfortunately , to be wide-spread today and homosexuality , at the time considered to be a psychological disorder , is becoming more and more common-place as it becomes increasingly acceptable in today 's society . |
| 12 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 13 | A multijunction cell , Solarex believes , should be more efficient as it uses layers of different crystals , each of which is optimised for a specific band of the visible light spectrum . |
| 14 | It was the most successful tour England had ever made , all the more satisfying as it began with them being written off as a bunch of no-hopers . |
| 15 | THE market for mains-signalling installations is becoming more varied as it grows . |
| 16 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |
| 17 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 18 | The moon effect can be tested with a torchlight on a dark night and , sure enough , the light disc appears to get small and more intense as it rises . |
| 19 | South of Eaux-Chaudes the valley opens out somewhat and becomes more invigorating as it rises . |