Example sentences of "[conj] [art] smaller [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finer the foam , or the smaller the cartridge , the more often it will need cleaning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While it is fair to assume that the smaller the firm the greater the degree of subcontracting , even 50 per cent of firms with 100–300 workers were acting as suppliers to larger firms . |
| 4 | This claim has led some to argue that the smaller the unit of local government the more likely it is that the mix of local taxes and services will mirror the population 's desires . |
| 5 | This suggests that the smaller the mass the greater the number of impacting bodies . |
| 6 | The only truism appears to be that the smaller the town the greater the extent of the exchange . |
| 7 | Therefore in the grading of material to be learned it must be taken into account that the smaller the difference from one step to the next , the better the learning . |
| 8 | It follows from equation ( 15 ) that the smaller the molecule the faster it moves . |
| 9 | The reason for this , he argues , is that the older the average age of women at marriage the greater the equality between the sexes , the greater the commitment to feminism , and the smaller the age-difference between husband and wife : ‘ Cultural take-off brings about the disappearance of the child-woman and thus of the child-wife ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 10 | The chief lithological effects are probably due to the hardness of the rock and the degree of its jointing : the harder the rock and the smaller the degree of jointing the slower the rate of coastal erosion . |
| 11 | Since it is the larger companies that are included in stock indices ( and the smaller the company the lower its weight ) , the omission of a value for the voting rights is probably not important , except possibly for the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is an equally weighted index covering some 1700 companies . |
| 12 | Furthermore , a great number of items can be learnt in a fixed amount of time if these fit into established and interconnected patterns ; and the smaller the difference between one step and the next , the better the learning . |
| 13 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 14 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 15 | But the smaller the jump the less likely death is , and the more likely is it that the jump will result in improvement . |