Example sentences of "more [adj] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin 's steps grew slower , more hesitant as he passed the bank , the post office , the chemist and , finally , the art shop . |
| 2 | Answer guide : These expenses are more controversial as there is a need to establish what is a business expense and what is not . |
| 3 | His foot and leg movements improved immeasurably , and his walking gait became more normal as he learned to swing his leg in the right pattern . |
| 4 | We become more long-sighted as we grow older , and our glasses need to be more powerful . |
| 5 | Against Sri Lanka it was even more humiliating as they lost the Test by five wickets and both one-day internationals by embarrassing margins . |
| 6 | Having a long soak in the tub is enjoyable and therapeutic : your muscles relax , your mind feels more tranquillised as you let go after the stresses of the day . |
| 7 | It was only when his embrace became more adventurous , his hands more demanding as he became aroused , that she realised where they were heading and she finally found the strength to pull away from him . |
| 8 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 9 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |
| 10 | But the landscape became grander and more exciting as we drove north ; great fiords cut deep into the land , and mountain-sides of lava screes towered away up into the clouds . |
| 11 | He was raw to bad news , more raw as he grew older , which was not perhaps quite what he had expected . |
| 12 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 13 | Our lives become richer and more free as we give ourselves to God and to of hers . |
| 14 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |
| 15 | This is all the more requisite as there are certain uses in which the to infinitive can not be substituted for the bare form ( e.g. ( 13 ) ) and , vice versa , where the bare infinitive can not replace its counterpart with to , as in ( 14 ) . |
| 16 | This does not mean that people become more honest as they grow older . |
| 17 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 18 | The second half was pretty hectic but Jackson 's confidence spread to the entire defence and the star-studded City forward line grew more and more frustrated as their celebration night went sour . |
| 19 | Her voice was more natural as she said : ‘ I 'm surprised you were n't treated as a suspect . |
| 20 | " 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 ? |
| 21 | Morgan felt more comfortable as he approached the Grange , still hidden by a copse of trees . |
| 22 | He got more and more tense as he pulled at himself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’ |
| 25 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 26 | Yvonne cares passionately about animal causes and is not averse to expressing her opinions in words and deeds — all the more remarkable as she is deaf . |
| 27 | This is all the more remarkable as he was responsible for giving away all five penalties . |
| 28 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 29 | Travellers might get used to jet-lag in the sense that they learn to live with it , or they might find it progressively more irksome as their initial excitement with travel begins to wear thin . |
| 30 | The tendons to the corners of the mouth may stand out clearly like lengths of string , and the facial muscles will become more and more obvious as they tauten and contract in the normal flat plains of the horse 's head . |