Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one side lay the children 's toy section or the other the lighting stereo and t.v. part . |
| 2 | The more features that 're fired , the more likely it is that you 'll get an out or the higher the activity level of the cognitive demon and then the more likely that the decision demon will decide that that 's the appropriate character . |
| 3 | The effect was more pronounced the lower the rate of fluid absorption or the higher the rate of fluid secretion . |
| 4 | Okay , income differentials , yes , so presumably the larger the differential between urban and rural wages , the er , the more , or the greater the incentive . |
| 5 | In general , rate cards are constructed so that the larger the space or the longer the commercial , the lower the cost per column centimetre or per second . |
| 6 | The finer the foam , or the smaller the cartridge , the more often it will need cleaning . |
| 7 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
| 8 | RELIABILITY — Check the pile , as it is generally true that the denser the pile , the better the carpet will wear . |
| 9 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
| 10 | Using US data for the period April 1966 to March 1967 ( 4,148 observations ) , Elton and Gruber were able to conclude from their findings that the lower the dividend yield the higher the implied personal income tax rate and that there was a clientele effect . |
| 11 | Remember that the thicker the board , the wider the bevel of the cut . |
| 12 | Still , he reckons that the bigger the mainframe , the cheaper relatively it is to buy — 10% cheaper , in fact , at the top than at the bottom end of the range . |
| 13 | One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally . |
| 14 | Only a very biased , brain's-eye view of the living world would assume that the bigger the brain the more successful the species . |
| 15 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
| 16 | Whichever you choose , remember that the bigger the curler or barrel , the bigger the curl . |
| 17 | Now , even where there is no mis-translation present , there 's still a possibility of a gap in perception and er s this research identified that gap in in perception was associated with er with poor outcomes , okay , whatever the particular problem was , that the bigger the misperception , the worse the outcome around . |
| 18 | In it , a group of star economists , including Sir Alan Walters , Mrs Thatcher 's personal adviser , showed how , in any stream of traffic , every additional vehicle slows down those already there — and that the slower the speed of the traffic stream being joined , the greater the hindrance caused by every joining vehicle . |
| 19 | If people are made aware that the better the service , the more they earn , then it really is an incentive to work hard and perform well , says Tony , 28 . |
| 20 | It can be argued — I think reasonably — that the better the idea , the more justified are attempts to execute it to perfection . |
| 21 | The downside is that the better the protection , the slower the checking . |
| 22 | It has been noted at Gartree that the better the governor , the more quickly he goes . |
| 23 | At the very least the results of the experiment reported in this paper remind us that not all economic agents optimize all the time , though it would appear that the simpler the problem being tackled and the more experience people have of it , the nearer to the optimal they are likely to be . |
| 24 | It is felt that the best the taxpayer can do is to seek to pay out the monies in an income form to a beneficiary . |
| 25 | Eventually , however , they concluded that the best the Ministry could do was to prohibit a reduction of charges , though this limited only the most flagrant abuses . |
| 26 | Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks . |
| 27 | Pursuing the issue of the fieldworker 's social role , it is worth commenting on a very general and apparently reasonable assumption that the closer the fieldworker is matched to subjects in terms of various social attributes , the more successful he or she is likely to be . |
| 28 | The epidemiological evidence suggests that the aerosol travels and remains infective at distances of at least 150 metres and perhaps 900 metres or more and that the closer the residence to a cooling tower the higher the risk . |
| 29 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 30 | What is more , it implies that the worse the market does the better is the performance of the underlying company . |