Example sentences of "[art] [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 17th the bunkers are on the left , so Seve missed the fairway to the right and hacks over all the trouble up the right , pitches on and the crowd are all shouting ‘ get in ’ . |
| 2 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
| 3 | … So the simpler the conditions the better , the fewer conditions the better . ’ |
| 4 | He genuinely believed that this was the least the belligerents could do in return for the " sacrifices " made by Spain during the Civil War . |
| 5 | The words in square brackets should , however , be deleted , or at the least the provisions should be amended to " best endeavours " to place a more stringent obligation on the landlord . |
| 6 | If the law is really going to be so pedantic over this , then the least the police can do is ensure everybody is aware of the rules well in advance . |
| 7 | That 's the least the victims and their families deserve . |
| 8 | Size is a trade-off between cleanness and accuracy : the lower the limits , the lower the risk of fall-out , but the greater the uncertainty that the test can accurately predict what a bigger explosion would do . |
| 9 | The easier it is to use courts or , even better , private agreements to sort out disputes between creditors and shareholders while the firm continues to operate , the lower the costs will be , and the greater the incentive to skate closer to the edge . |
| 10 | The National Insurance pension is the most important component of social security provision and so the lower the incomes of pensioners , the greater the proportion the National Insurance pension comprises , and the less is derived from occupational pensions . |
| 11 | Storm waves produced in open oceans travel on far from the storm centres with velocities which depend on wave length , the longer the wave length the higher the velocity , and on the height of the waves , the lower the waves the less readily they are damped out . |
| 12 | As a general rule , the lower the densities and the higher the standards of design , the higher the social class of those who will eventually occupy the houses that are built . |
| 13 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 14 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 15 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 16 | Throughout the thirties the Germans had been eager to displace the British . |
| 17 | The nearer the foundations , the more likely they are to unsettle or destabilise the whole structure . |
| 18 | In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham . |
| 19 | The fact that the priest is showing tourists rather than the illiterate the paintings is only half the point that Mac Caig is trying to put across . |
| 20 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
| 21 | Well erm basically the this the tutorials run by all run their course . |
| 22 | The more time you have to concentrate on training , the quicker the results will be . |
| 23 | The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked . |
| 24 | When , in July 1939 , it seemed that war was inevitable , the Poles decided to give the French and the British the results of their research , as well as two actual Enigma machines . |
| 25 | Coleridge required love , as the final lines of the agonizing The Pains of Sleep remind him . |
| 26 | The longer she lay here , the shorter the odds became … |
| 27 | Use good English — which normally means : the shorter the words , the better . |
| 28 | In the 1890s the Kaszubians emerged from the fog of feudal serfdom and manorial labour . |
| 29 | In the 1890s the brothers William and Robert Smith ( 1866–1928 and 1873–1900 ) , influenced by the sociological approach of Patrick Geddes and by reading Warming 's work , instituted botanical surveys of Scotland and of Yorkshire . |
| 30 | By the 1890s the seats of sexual respectability were seen by reformers such as Grant Allen to rest in the lower middle class and the upper working class , but in the latter there was no simple acceptance of middle-class norms . |