Example sentences of "[art] [adj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 2 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 3 | On the 17th the medical committee ( Cline , Crawford , Sandeman and Houlston ) interviewed the two candidates separately . |
| 4 | He had been careful not to tear her dress , but everything else seemed to be ruined irrevocably , not the least the inward psyche of Sally-Anne herself , which seemed to have been raped more than her body , if that were possible . |
| 5 | Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better . |
| 6 | Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction . |
| 7 | The temperature and flow are usually interdependent-the greater the flow rate , the lower the resultant temperature and vice versa — though some models are thermostatically controlled to give a particular temperature whatever the flow rate . |
| 8 | Roughly speaking , the lower the socioeconomic group of someone 's father , the more likely it is that his or her full-time education ended in school , rather than college or university . |
| 9 | This relationship is indirect : the lower the real wage , the more workers employers will want to employ . |
| 10 | Empirical studies have demonstrated that the lower the top rate of tax , the greater the yield . |
| 11 | The lower the marginal propensity to withdraw ( mpw ) , and hence the flatter the withdrawals function : this will cause a bigger multiplied change in national income and aggregate demand . |
| 12 | This response is attenuated in patients with supraconal lesions , and is very strongly linked to the increase in intra-abdominal pressure ; the higher the lesion , the lower the intra-abdominal pressure generated , and the lower the external anal sphincter response . |
| 13 | ‘ The more flying you do , the lower the hourly rate ’ says Keith Curry ( letter below ) . |
| 14 | As Fig. 2 shows , the lower the median age at first marriage in a country , the more time elapses until the first birth occurs . |
| 15 | And , it could be argued , the lower the initial level of consumption by producers the greater will be the link between productivity and consumption . |
| 16 | His books included the two-volume The Imperial Conference ( 1911 ) , The Britannic Question ( 1913 ) , The Empire in Eclipse ( 1926 ) , and His Britannic Majesty ( 1935 ) . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth the little stream which , when it joins the Brigach in the palace grounds becomes the Danube , was channelled underground . |
| 18 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 19 | The early mood of the schools ' social commitment was best expressed by Montague Butler , headmaster of Harrow , when , holding a copy of the revelatory The Bitter Cry of Outcast London in his hand while delivering a sermon in Oxford , he called out : |
| 20 | This leads to a famous metaphor which comprises for many among the non-political the sole sliver of political theory of which they acknowledge possession , namely Pareto 's distinction between lions ' and ‘ foxes ’ in ruling elites : |
| 21 | Learning is no doubt present , and the higher the consciousness of the creature , the broader the tattvic tapestry , then the greater is the capacity for learning . |
| 22 | The rationale , let us call it Cash 's law , appears to be the sillier the Christian name the faster and nastier the bowler . |
| 23 | ‘ Was the action taken by the British the proper thing to do ? ’ he asked down a crackling line from Buenos Aires to Woodward 's home in Surbiton , Surrey . |
| 24 | And yet the changes have taken place without disturbing in the slightest the unique atmosphere that makes the event so special , a credit to the care , attention and financial assistance that Direct Line have devoted to making Beckenham one of the most pleasant stops on the tennis calendar . |
| 25 | By the mid-1930s the Soviet menace had slipped into fourth place in the SIS ‘ order of priorities ’ behind Germany , Italy , and Japan . |
| 26 | By the mid-1930s the Malthusian revival of the previous decade was over and opinion changed with the widely publicised discovery that the country faced the prospect of a declining population . |
| 27 | The shorter the average maturity of their deposits , the greater will have to be the liquidity of their assets . |
| 28 | The longer seed is allowed to form in the pods , the shorter the productive life of the plants will be . |
| 29 | In 1972 a study of rural African and westernised populations noted that the greater the dietary fibre content , the greater the daily stool weight and the shorter the whole-gut transit time . |
| 30 | In the 1860's the French anthropologist and anatomist , Pierre Paul Broca called attention to the fact that language disorders ( termed ‘ aphasias ’ ) were far more commonly observed after damage to the left hand side of the brain . |