Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of the few crops the European Community is n't growing enough of . |
| 2 | … So the simpler the conditions the better , the fewer conditions the better . ’ |
| 3 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 4 | The latter houses the Small Area Health Statistics Research Unit ( SAHSRU ) , which has a specific remit to conduct research into morbidity and mortality at local scales ( Elliot 1988 ) . |
| 5 | During the latter years the only minute of interest was in October 1869 when " the secretary was empowered to write to Mr Menzies and Dr. Campbell , the former from taking any papers and the latter from entering the room altogether , not being a subscriber , " In 1870 there was a complaint about the pilfering of papers and the committee have to acknowledge , with regret , that their attempts to prevent this evil have not been attended with such success as had been anticipated . |
| 6 | Going out with girls who have babies is good news ; the more girlfriends the better . |
| 7 | In the past it was often hung from farmhouse ceilings to display a person 's wealth ( the more Gaperons the better ) and to indicate the size of the dowry of an eligible daughter . |
| 8 | So , the more Keys the more facilities and equipment will be provided . |
| 9 | we could have more , the more nets the better . |
| 10 | While I agree with the importance that this test places on friendship , I 've never agreed with the idea that the more friends the merrier . |
| 11 | The more Moors the more gain ! |
| 12 | Basically the more levels the better but with correspondingly larger memory requirements . |
| 13 | The more ideas the better . |
| 14 | The more ideas the better , pupils and colleagues can be asked to contribute . |
| 15 | In the former areas the chief executive is sustained in his perennial struggle for mastery with congress by his claim to represent the nation as a whole and by the provisions of the Constitution that designate him as Commander in Chief and give him special responsibilities in international relations . |
| 16 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 17 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |
| 18 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 19 | In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank . |
| 20 | In a few areas the proposed treatment will considerably undermine the main purpose of the forthcoming Financial Reporting Standard , namely to reflect the substance of transactions in assets or liabilities . |
| 21 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 22 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 23 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 24 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 25 | In a few minutes the same policeman forced his way through the mob to the gallery . |
| 26 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 27 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 28 | I killed a few rabbits the other day and I keep getting weird phone calls from Eric , but that 's about all . |
| 29 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 30 | After a few days the eldest brother told me to come . |