Example sentences of "and [art] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current . |
| 2 | It is a fact that the more serious the crime , and the more awful the act , the more costly the nature of reconciliation . |
| 3 | And the more successful a company has been , the more difficult and painful this process is apt to be . |
| 4 | The more this is done , the more inflexible will planning become , the less will it be able to adapt to changing circumstances , the greater is the likelihood of conflict between policies , and the more confusing the situation will be . |
| 5 | A clear communications policy is necessary for both external and internal communications — and the more hierarchical the structure of the organisation , the more inflexible the communications are likely to be . |
| 6 | ‘ So as many social programmes and educational things that you take away from the youth , the more and more you foster illiteracy , the more and more you foster disenfranchisement and the more dangerous the population becomes , you see ? |
| 7 | To combine forces made supreme sense to him , and the more absurd the reality seemed , the more deeply he desired it . |
| 8 | These are simple cases of the general thesis that information is power — information about a named person can confer power over that person , and the more complete the information the greater the power . |
| 9 | The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth . |
| 10 | If the calculated free energy change is negative this indicates that the reaction will occur spontaneously ; the larger the negative value the more readily the reaction will occur and the more stable the reaction products will be in comparison with the original reactants . |
| 11 | And the more complex the route , the more complex the calculation . |
| 12 | The clarity and precision associated with CDs is there in abundance , and the more expensive the turntable , the less the clicks and scratches seem to matter — a stylus that is tracking accurately tends not to make a mountain out of a molehill in the groove . |
| 13 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 14 | Nothing is impossible and the more unlikely the allegation the more likely it is to be true . |
| 15 | All of these trends promote and/or accelerate podzolisation which in turn promotes leaching of iron and aluminium and the more acidic a soil profile becomes , the more decomposition of organic material is inhibited . |
| 16 | And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic . |
| 17 | And the more valuable the book the greater the ultimate scandal , for it will probably end up on the shelves of libraries in other parts of the world where the literary culture of England is still prized . |
| 18 | ( Contributions were taken from the medieval players , and fines collected for poor workmanship and the infringement of guild rules went towards financing the plays , and the more prosperous the guild the more elaborate their pageant . ) |
| 19 | However , a high knot-count is necessary to produce extremely intricate designs and the more intricate the design , the more knots needed to ensure its success . |
| 20 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 21 | This is probably because only the strangest experiences are remembered by people waking normally after a night 's sleep , and the more everyday the dream content , the less memorable it is . |
| 22 | Clearly the young the patient and the more severe the breathing difficulty the more urgent becomes the need for help . |
| 23 | Indeed , the nearer to the date of the birth , the higher the risk of death and the more dominant the influence of the endogenous factors . |
| 24 | The more inelastic the supply curve and the more elastic the demand curve , the more the final incidence will fall on the seller rather than the purchaser . |
| 25 | However , the signals can also be used to show how much you want to go that way , the harder one presses the stronger the signal and the more rapid the output to the computer . |
| 26 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 27 | The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder . |
| 28 | Bias is a problem in all aspects of social research and no more important a case of bias problems can be found than in sampling . |