Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish are drawn into nets using an electrical charge ; the more fish that are caught the purer the water is likely to be . |
| 2 | The most important ingredient is speed , sine the faster you are going the lighter the rig will feel in the duck ( apparent wind ) . |
| 3 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 4 | ‘ Instead it can , for example , be based on the argument that any particular agent 's capacity to absorb information is finite , and that broadly therefore the smaller the unit to be controlled the greater the likelihood of competence sufficient to make the necessary judgement . |
| 5 | Now Adrian is keeping a round the clock watch for the dog in case it returns . |
| 6 | The sooner an agreement is notified the longer the period of protection from fines is likely to be , since such protection does not exist for any period of operation of an agreement prior to notification . |
| 7 | So the earlier the thrombolytic therapy is administered the greater the chance the patient has of maintaining reasonable left ventricular function after the vessel is opened . |
| 8 | The more information that is demanded the greater the cost . |
| 9 | However , observational studies such as these should be interpreted with care , all that can be fairly concluded is that the group operated on do not differ significantly from the remainder and the longer a patient is followed the greater the change of surgery . |
| 10 | This is an undoubted problem , but to use it to preclude registration of a charge of shares in a subsidiary is to make the best the enemy of the better . |
| 11 | I bet he was doing the same the year before . |
| 12 | The public repudiation of Russian chauvinism was to offer the oppressed the right to self-determination , or as he now put it , so that there should be no ambiguity , the right to secede from Russia . |
| 13 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |