Example sentences of "[art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The richer the vein was the less the tribute paid by the mine ; the leaner the vein the greater the tribute . |
| 2 | Most important , of course , was the recognition that , although in the long-term measures to increase income and reduce costs would enable Colleges to become more self-sufficient , in the short-term the finance available would not necessarily allow all desirable changes to be introduced simultaneously , and some prioritising would be required . |
| 3 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
| 4 | In the 1680s the navy had not succeeded very well in its primary purpose of preventing invasions . |
| 5 | By the 1680s the power of France was beginning to alarm Englishmen as well . |
| 6 | In the 1820s the vestry at Christchurch , Spitalfields , had to issue general instructions against the use of the single case in their vaults , advocating the triple case in all instances . |
| 7 | By the 1820s the movement had spread to England . |
| 8 | In the long-run the provision of this support will need to be done electronically and suitable tools need to be developed to allow simultaneous interactive online support of users . |
| 9 | This means that in the long-run the level of real income will always be at the level associated with full employment , whatever the price level . |
| 10 | And to coincide with the temporary exhibitions , LACMA is showing its own new Cezanne , ‘ Sous-bois ’ ( c. 1890 ) , a large oil purchased last year for a multi-million-dollar sum believed to be the largest the museum has ever spent on an acquisition . |
| 11 | The rush of mergers and acquisitions in America in the 1980s was not the largest the country has ever known . |
| 12 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a $470m contract for Groupe Speciale Mobile equipment from Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH : the contract covers infrastructure , services and telephones and is the largest the company has yet received for mobile phone kit . |
| 13 | The 333-acre wood , the largest the trust has bought in Scotland , opened this week , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , as is well known , a simple design leaves all elements within it exposed so the simpler the concept , the better the execution required to pull it off successfully . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In this case , the simpler the window treatment the better ; plain blinds , cafe curtains or just left bare . |
| 17 | The simpler the system the fewer the risks . |
| 18 | I 'm trying to reduce the number of business administrators : the fewer there are , the simpler the system and the cheaper it will be . ’ |
| 19 | Very often , the simpler the aid the more effective it is , and less likely to go wrong . |
| 20 | In the 308 the side view became more balanced to reflect the increased importance of the rear end with its new engine . |
| 21 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
| 22 | But they are the least the world must do to make itself safer from nuclear blackmail . |
| 23 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 24 | Would you say that that the that the experience of the N U M has been a very important one f f for you in that respect ? |
| 25 | However , when Mr Hayden stood up and made to show the stranger the way , the figure melted into thin air , leaving the foreman completely mystified . |
| 26 | With the 60s the dominance lay in two apparently contradictory pressures ; one emphasizing sociology and organizational behaviour , the other quantitative methods and the beginning of the impact of the computer/information technology revolution . |
| 27 | Erm the large size is really a relatively it it 's a smaller percentage of the market so we 've had to price it as far down as we can that 's why our contribution for the large size is not as large as the Erm the overhead the sorry the capital costs erm will be a total of two hundred and ninety thousand which is two hundred for factory extensions , eighty thousand for plant and ten perc ten thousand for the gasser . |
| 28 | The general result is that the higher the correlation coefficient the lower the CD score and the better the diversification of risk . |
| 29 | Associated with a bond 's credit rating will be a default risk premium : the lower the credit rating , the greater the risk of default and the higher the default risk premium . |
| 30 | For any sample size there will be an inverse relationship between these ; the smaller the range specified , the lower the probability of accuracy it will be possible to associate with it . |