Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 2 | The time for planning and making arrangements will be much shorter and therefore the nurse must ensure that she obtains adequate information from the patient ( or family ) on admission . |
| 3 | Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 5 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 6 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 7 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 8 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |
| 9 | The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago . |
| 10 | The redder the light , the farther and faster the galaxy . |
| 11 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
| 12 | As he gets nearer and nearer the jungle in which he will begin hunting , he comes near to a large bush . |
| 13 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 14 | Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds . |
| 15 | Considering his band had clocked up four months on a promotional treadmill that had become steeper and faster the more ‘ Nevermind ’ sold , he looked in pretty good shape . |
| 16 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 17 | Although he was only eighteen months older than Carrie he was in the top class and sometimes he was taught on his own by Mr Morgan , the Minister , because he was cleverer than even the most senior boys . |
| 18 | For some countries , including Britain and Spain , it seems likely that a softer , more automatic ERM would be better than both the existing ERM and no ERM at all . |
| 19 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 20 | It comes on two CDs which makes it cheaper than either the Philips or Harmonia Mundi sets , and has a choir in Collegium Musicum 90 who for clarity of diction , and intense musicality , surpass all other versions with the exception of Eliot Gardiner 's Monteverdi Choir . |
| 21 | The far side crust is thicker and therefore the basins gave rise to less weakening there , and consequently far less lava emerged into those basins than into those on the near side . |
| 22 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 23 | On the average these steps will be higher the older and therefore the thicker the crystal . |
| 24 | The median pepsin output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients ( 29 , 19–60 ) was higher than both the H pylori positive ( p<0.005 ) and negative ( p<0.001 ) healthy volunteers . |
| 25 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
| 26 | As the resistance gets higher and higher the current goes down . |
| 27 | The further downstream one goes , the higher and better the banks must be : skilful siting and engineering are obviously required . |
| 28 | This non-equivalence between the optimal tariff and quota is in accord with Hwang and Mai 's ( 1988 ) results that domestic prices will be higher if initially the domestic firms were playing more competitively than Cournot . |
| 29 | The Conservatives won an overall majority of ninety , with the opposition split into three factions , but the Labour Party much stronger than either the Asquithian or the Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 30 | Bring to the boil , then reduce the heat and simmer the sauce , covered , for about 1hr — the longer and slower the better . |