Example sentences of "[vb infin] that the [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He should explain that the left the country only because his authority was no longer respected and because he desired to avoid bloodshed .
2 At the very least the results of the experiment reported in this paper remind us that not all economic agents optimize all the time , though it would appear that the simpler the problem being tackled and the more experience people have of it , the nearer to the optimal they are likely to be .
3 Only a very biased , brain's-eye view of the living world would assume that the bigger the brain the more successful the species .
4 This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism .
5 Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ?
6 The children will soon realise that the steeper the slope the greater the effort required .
7 You will notice that the greater the interval between wage payments , the longer the period during which the firm is in debt to its employee and , correspondingly , the greater the security of tenure of the employee .
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