Example sentences of "[noun] the more " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 2 | The circumstances which govern this price for any given amount of the commodity vary in character from one problem to another ; but in every case the more of a thing is offered for sale in a market the lower is the price at which it will find purchasers ; or in other words , the demand price for each bushel or yard diminishes with every increase in the amount offered . |
| 3 | ‘ Its strength rests on a contrast between before and after ; and the deeper the contrast the more traffic the event . ’ |
| 4 | Of course the more time available the better . |
| 5 | First of all , the more water-furrows in a field the more land is wasted ; secondly a field that is ploughed in narrow stetches that are ridged up slightly to assist the drainage is not the best seed-bed for a crop of corn , as the ridges are bound , to some degree , to cause an unequal ripening of the seed . |
| 6 | The idea of increasing the diameter in waterwheels was that the number of ‘ buckets ’ could be increased and so the bigger the wheel the more power was generated . |
| 7 | The thinner the fabric the more fullness is required . |
| 8 | Bethune-Baker and his school supposed that the more you strip the documents of the New Testament the more clarity and simplicity you will find . |
| 9 | Oh , what the whole part of the problem running is , is the depreciation thing , the more , the more you spend on a car the more the more depreciation you 're going to get |
| 10 | The longer she lived with Ken the more like Wendy she became . |
| 11 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 12 | So , the more Keys the more facilities and equipment will be provided . |
| 13 | The teacher , or anyone else present , could take steps to test the truth of the statement , ‘ Here is a piece of chalk ’ , but it is significant that the more stringent the test the more theory is called upon , and further , absolute certainty is never attained . |
| 14 | The more one studies the facts of Blake 's escape the more questions remain unanswered . |
| 15 | You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into . |
| 16 | Even more is lost during the transmission process ; the lower the voltage the more energy is dissipated . |
| 17 | Oh it 's the bit I really hate is the the more you tighten your grip the more star systems will slip through your fingers . |
| 18 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 19 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 20 | In all these matters the more you know about the media and the more you know about what they 're looking for and the more you know about techniques and the more you can develop things , the greater the possibilities are and the greater the opportunities . |
| 21 | The primary objective is to measure energy transfer in physical geography and the closer one gets to the transfer the more realist is the approach , in contrast to the functional which tends to employ surrogates for process work functions . |
| 22 | I guess my thought was that , was that in view that there we were doing philosophy the more convergence there would be if we really knew what we were about as philosophers . |
| 23 | McMenemy added : ‘ As I understand it Graham said that in an ideal world the longer the lay-off the more games you would hope a player would have before his next England appearance . |
| 24 | So we would essentially be talking about a phased process the more we consider . |
| 25 | The more Moors the more gain ! |
| 26 | It must also be borne in mind that when breeding takes place in an ‘ unsuitable ’ pH than the sex ratio of the fry may be affected — in A.cacatuoides it appears that the more alkaline the water the more males are produced , though I do not know if this is true for other species . |
| 27 | The screen used depends on the printing process and the paper to be used , the higher the quality the more lines can be used . |
| 28 | In some ways the more temptation is increased , the more a strong character might want to resist . |
| 29 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 30 | Whilst there are many ways of breaking free from restraint the more complex the movement the more can go wrong . |