Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [adj] the [noun] " 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 | Bone transport causes problems for palaeoecological reconstruction , for the larger the catchment area for a fossil assemblage the greater the possibilities of mixture of habitat and the less precise is the interpretation of the palaeoecology . |
8 | Of course the bigger the job the less excuse |
9 | 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 . |
10 | That 's to an expert sailor to reef was n't it because of course the stronger the wind the more exciting the sailing |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ( 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Also , the stronger the planetary field the larger the magnetosphere for given solar wind conditions . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place . |
17 | Lihir Island , off the west coast of New Ireland ( itself sitting off the north coast of Papua New Guinea ) is said to have the world 's largest gold deposit — though as it sits inside a volcano the deeper the miners dig , the hotter they get . |
18 | In practice the younger the child , the more likely it is to go with mum , and seventeen out of every twenty children do so . |
19 | The bigger the car the bigger the saving . |
20 | The more crowded the car the merrier the faces seemed to be . |
21 | As a general rule the greater the level of stress , the greater the tension apparent around the mouth and nose . |
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 | Therefore the higher the level of cholesterol in the blood the greater the risk of problems with the heart . |
25 | The quicker Coe finishes the marathon the larger the donation . |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | An accelerated stability study indicates only a probable shelf-life under given conditions ; the longer the duration of the test the greater the probability . |
28 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |
29 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
30 | Presenting food to the child is not correlated with weight while prompts are highly correlated ; the higher the intensity of the prompt the higher the correlation ( Klesges et al . |