Example sentences of "the bigger " in BNC.

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1 The richer the people , the bigger the crates they erected .
2 the bigger girls could persuade me a do anything they liked with my money .
3 Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route .
4 Many of the CDU votes went instead to the ultra right-wing Republicans who polled over seven per cent in the bigger cities with problems of unemployment , the housing shortage and a high percentage of foreign immigrants .
5 The bigger UK companies , hardly enamoured with the charter themselves , might have the administrative capacity to handle it whereas independent operators did not .
6 Traffic in the bigger cities was chaotic .
7 After Lord Justice Taylor 's report , a lot of the bigger grounds have reduced capacities .
8 Francis also plucked Penrice and Martyn from non-League football and is getting almost blase by the attention his players attract from the bigger clubs .
9 The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy .
10 However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income .
11 In short , the society requires a list of all music which is performed live only at major venues and on the bigger tours .
12 The second myth says that the bigger you get , the less communication you have .
13 I will also introduce a few grains of hemp into the swim along with the maggots to try and bring the bigger dish onto the feed .
14 The bigger fish will turn up haphazardly to almost anyone .
15 The bigger the tide the better the action .
16 Two of the bigger matches were cancelled , the Bass National squad Open on the Trent at Burton a victim because of the road conditions .
17 ‘ If the canal thaws and colours up , then the bigger fish should show more .
18 He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones .
19 The bigger the wig , the longer the retinue of courtiers .
20 McLaren jumped on the ground-effects bandwagon with the M28 , reasoning that the bigger the ground-effects area , the better the car would be .
21 It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone .
22 Inside , he has always found that the people who buy the bigger houses like one or two very large rooms , while the stables and service wings at the back make smaller cottages for people working locally .
23 Apart from a shaky start and the threat of a squall in the second half , conditions in the Aston Villa Leisure Centre proved entirely to the liking of the bigger galleons , Spain beating England 99-83 .
24 From 20% in 1980 , investment banking grew to account for two-thirds of the business at the bigger houses in the go-go days .
25 The bigger point is that nothing in Poland is static any longer .
26 Restructuring is more complicated for the bigger junk-bond casualties .
27 Yet , beginning roughly in 1984–85 , companies , especially the bigger ones , deserted the banks .
28 But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators .
29 I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside .
30 In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated .
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