Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The healthier a person is , the higher the dose necessary to throw that person out of balance , as shown by the appearance of symptoms and signs . |
| 2 | The clearer a goal is , the easier it is to decide whether the goal is attainable , and if it is attainable , how you would go about achieving it . |
| 3 | The capital required reflects how much risk a firm is taking : the bigger a firm 's risks , the more capital it must have . |
| 4 | The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking , the greater the risk of developing lung cancer . |
| 5 | Statistics show the younger a wife is when she marries , the more likely the chance of it all ending in the divorce courts . |
| 6 | The larger a firm becomes the more cost efficient it can become and hence prices can be kept below those competitors . |
| 7 | And the larger a parrot 's bill , the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image ( a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor ) . |
| 8 | The larger a programme 's audience or a paper 's readership , the more likely it seems that the content must in general be enjoyed , else why the large audience ? |
| 9 | This argument presumed that only one person in the family was capable of cleaning ; furthermore , that the smaller a house is , the easier it is to keep clean . |
| 10 | The older a database is , the richer it becomes as a reference about customers and their views of you . |
| 11 | Despite these disappointments , it remains true that the stronger a country 's trade links with Germany , the better its economy is holding up . |
| 12 | One would think that , after all that time , a movement that really desired increased pensions and had failed , would have changed its tactics … the stronger a movement becomes ‘ institutionally ’ the weaker it becomes as an instrument for the benefit of the people . |
| 13 | But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo . |
| 14 | The more precisely a target audience is defined , and the more homogeneous it is , the greater a course 's potential for an extended impact . |
| 15 | With regard to the former , power in the sphere of circulation is linked to power in the sphere of production : the greater a group 's access to rewards in the latter , the greater its strength in the exchange processes . |
| 16 | The greater a noble 's military power , the more land he could control ; and the larger his estates , the more warriors he could support in order to secure his domain . |
| 17 | Because the fiddlier a test is , the less chance there is of a reliable answer . |
| 18 | The longer that a person is deprived of oxygen the bluer a person becomes . |
| 19 | Criteria may range in breadth from very narrow ( " can add two single-digit numbers when no regrouping is required " ) to very broad ( " can calculate using any of the four rules of number " ) ; the narrower a criterion statement the less equivocal its reference and so the more precisely assessment tasks based on it will be specified . |
| 20 | It is clear that the narrower a pulse becomes , the greater the bandwidth a system must possess in order to handle it properly . |
| 21 | Then we walked on , at no brisker a pace than we had come . |
| 22 | Controlled experiments and questionnaire results after 1970 gave no clearer a picture than those before 1970 . |
| 23 | Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown . |
| 24 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 25 | A report on the tourist industry and the environment has urged operators to make a greater a contribution to schemes which help protect the environment from excessive numbers of tourists and developments . |
| 26 | We can remind ourselves that , whatever the hype , Saddam is no greater a world danger than Galtieri 's Argentina was , and the freedom and democracy at stake in this war is not ours but the Third World 's . |
| 27 | DRINKING is no newer a theme than the quest for truth or the pursuit of friendship , but the startling originality of Stephen Amidon 's Thirst at least lends it a fresh sheen . |
| 28 | Prices fixed by private monopolies such as these would be no truer a reflection of the market than those fixed by the state . |