Example sentences of "[art] [adv] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Margolis pointed out , in an age of literature inflation , the more papers are written , the less they count for , and the greater the pressure to produce more . |
| 2 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 3 | The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech . |
| 4 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 5 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 6 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 7 | But the further they got from the area , the easier it became . |
| 8 | The further they went into the forest the more it seemed as though the village behind , with Fat Watt and Diggory the King 's man and the priest , represented the enemy , and the miles and miles of trees she had formerly and still a little feared had become a sort of sanctuary , a hiding place . |
| 9 | Social security were paying my bills for me , but the more they paid the more they took off me . |
| 10 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 11 | Indeed , the more they reflected on it , the better it appeared , and they quickly passed from affecting forgetfulness to unaffected obduracy . |
| 12 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 13 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 14 | They do not like to think that such a brutal murder could be committed by a Scouser , but the more they think about it the more they believe that it was . |
| 15 | In other words , the more ’ everyday ’ a domain is , the more ’ everyday ’ its constituent words will be , and the more they fit into stereotypical patterns of usage that are quoted as examples in the dictionary definitions . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , the more they see of us the less they like us . ’ |
| 17 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |
| 18 | Indeed , the more one thinks about them , the more they conform to the conventional pattern of the apprenticeship , with their carefully graduated stages ( apprentice , journeyman , master ) , their strict job demarcations , the emphasis on personal contact and role modelling , the gradual increase in responsibility , the mimicking of the activity of research in seminars , and library and project work . |
| 19 | All sides are hoping for a successful horse fair this year and that the closest they get to a confrontation is a clash of cultures . |
| 20 | All sides are hoping for a successful horse fair this year and that the closest they get to a confrontation is a clash of cultures . |
| 21 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 22 | Bees clamber into its throat and sip a nectar so intoxicating that after they have taken only a little they begin to stagger about . |