Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , income differentials , yes , so presumably the larger the differential between urban and rural wages , the er , the more , or the greater the incentive . |
| 2 | This is why we do n't test at the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent confidence level because the higher you 'll , the smaller the probability making a type one error essentially er is significance level , right the larger the probability will make a type two error , right , a type two error denotes the power of the test . |
| 3 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |
| 4 | This has been the year of Russian exhibitions , generally better the older the art . |
| 5 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |
| 6 | Obviously the faster the machine the better and there is nothing wrong with using a super 486 for the job . |
| 7 | ‘ We are delighted if someone just goes around their office rattling a collecting tin , though obviously the dafter the idea , the more fun the whole thing becomes . ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately , as is well known , a simple design leaves all elements within it exposed so the simpler the concept , the better the execution required to pull it off successfully . |
| 9 | so the tighter the joint , the water will penetrate |
| 10 | Or if they are there , they 're existing voluntary organisations which may be already very loaded , who 've got a lot of work to do , to get into a negotiating framework and so on , so the first the thing I 'd say in answer to you is that , N C V O and other must put a tremendous pressure on government and local authorities to fund the community development aspect of the pluralistic society which er , the current government seems to want . |
| 11 | The idea of increasing the diameter in waterwheels was that the number of ‘ buckets ’ could be increased and so the bigger the wheel the more power was generated . |
| 12 | So the greater the risk that another male has inseminated the female , the more trouble a male takes to get her to eject the sperm . |
| 13 | So the greater the volatility of the underlying share , the greater the time value for any given term to maturity is likely to be . |
| 14 | Suddenly it was in vogue to have an all-over tan — so the barer the body the better ! |
| 15 | So the big the thing that 's providing everything , you take the petrol out , you wo n't go unless you 're at the top of a hill , of course because it can |
| 16 | The ways people bid , however , are pretty much the same the world over . |
| 17 | Grassland life is much the same the world over , and horses and litopterns independently evolved the same qualities to cope with the problems of grassland life . |
| 18 | There is a Dunning story of the Canadian who asked where Dunning was and was told that it was next to Forteviot , a village only a tenth the size of Dunning . |
| 19 | The smaller the black hole , the shorter the distance the particle with negative energy will have to go before it becomes a real particle , and thus the greater the rate of emission , and the apparent temperature , of the black hole . |
| 20 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 21 | The underlying assumption ( or , more accurately , hypothesis ) of this paper is that client participation makes for a better social work intervention , and thus the higher the degree of client participation the more effective the intervention will be ( Kurzman and Solomon , 1970 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; York , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | So just the new the sort of technology coming in |
| 23 | I 've been in the United States , I 've been in Europe , but the politics and the way people behave was just the same the world over . |
| 24 | From my own observations , generally the greater the weight problem the faster the rate of eating . |
| 25 | But tests so far have clearly shown that dietary fibre increases the wastage and indicated that generally the higher the fibre content the higher the wastage of calories . |
| 26 | Thawing occurs slowly in May and June ; generally the larger the water body , the longer it takes to thaw out in spring , and the cooler it remains through summer . |
| 27 | Generally the larger the animal , the greater the concern with its ill-treatment . |
| 28 | All teas are dried before use and are graded when dried — generally the larger the leaf the better quality the tea . |
| 29 | As far as the first is concerned , without going into statistical details , generally the larger the population the smaller the sample needs to be . |
| 30 | The use of a petrol block on a diesel engine is not a problem as the parts are exactly the same The problem is with the crankshaft The diesel unit is of forged steel and carries a ‘ D ’ stamped on the web of the crank The petrol version , whilst sharing exactly the same dimensions is marked P and it is made from cast iron and will not run for long in a diesel unit — as you have discovered Some military petrol engines however are fitted with the forged steel crank and these will fit and run in diesel units |