Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Witney 's hard work was rewarded six minutes from time ; Mark Walton done brilliantly to keep the ball in play the slipped the ball back to Paul Lewis who crossed first time , and there was Steve Jenkins to head home and snatch a well-deserved point . |
| 2 | the resistance the same the current goes up . |
| 3 | As with telescopes , the larger the aperture the greater the light-grasp , but there are hazards too . |
| 4 | The bigger the tide the better the action . |
| 5 | Class background is an important factor in the level of schooling achieved , partly because the higher the level the greater the cost ( if only in terms of opportunity costs ) and partly because educational facilities are best in the well-to-do residential areas . |
| 6 | This suggests that the smaller the mass the greater the number of impacting bodies . |
| 7 | Of course the bigger the job the less excuse |
| 8 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 9 | That 's to an expert sailor to reef was n't it because of course the stronger the wind the more exciting the sailing |
| 10 | But the cells usually died when they underwent the reduction division ( meiosis ) necessary to produce gametes with half the parental chromosomes , so that the older the fetus the fewer the germ cells found . |
| 11 | ( In a similar analysis , Kodras ( 1986a ) has produced a geography of the ‘ work-disincentive effect ’ of the level of AFDC allocations — figure 5.8 — in which the lower the parameter the smaller the effect . |
| 12 | At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time . |
| 13 | Also , the stronger the planetary field the larger the magnetosphere for given solar wind conditions . |
| 14 | The greater the isolation the greater the military 's aversion to civilian ways of life is likely to be and its willingness to attempt to supplant them . |
| 15 | The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place . |
| 16 | In practice the younger the child , the more likely it is to go with mum , and seventeen out of every twenty children do so . |
| 17 | Under Ivan the Terrible the pomestie system was expanded in the most dramatic fashion possible . |
| 18 | The bigger the car the bigger the saving . |
| 19 | As a general rule the greater the level of stress , the greater the tension apparent around the mouth and nose . |
| 20 | Right now I 'm here to say that ‘ MOR ’ is cheeky and angry and much too big for its platform boots ; in other words the single the Manics always should have made . |
| 21 | The higher the concentrations the greater the possibility of entering into the realms of hindered settling and settling convection in which upward motion of escaping waters impedes settling ( Kuenen , 1968 ) . |
| 22 | The earlier the administration of thrombolytic therapy the greater the frequency of early reperfusion and the greatest potential for the salvage of myocardium . |
| 23 | The patient should be treated within the first 6 hours of the onset of symptoms ; the longer you delay therapy the greater the risk of haemorrhage into the area of myocardial infarction following thrombolysis . |
| 24 | The reciprocal of the p/e ratio — the earnings yield — is thought to measure the claim by shareholders on a firm 's cash flow , so the higher the p/e the lower the cost of capital . |
| 25 | Therefore the higher the level of cholesterol in the blood the greater the risk of problems with the heart . |
| 26 | The quicker Coe finishes the marathon the larger the donation . |
| 27 | However , it is not necessarily the case that the shorter the period during which the plaintiff is likely to be deprived of amenities the lower the award of damages under this head . |
| 28 | The greater the dispersal of resource areas the larger the territory , but the extent of the resource areas themselves may not vary greatly ( Macdonald , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Denise Bolger gave her statement to the police on February the thirteenth the day after her son James disappeared but before his body was found on a railway embankment in Walton . |