Example sentences of "[that] [art] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be a facet of nature that the lower a creature is on the scale of consciousness , the less there is for it to learn , and the more slavishly bound it is to its instincts . |
| 2 | There is common agreement amongst librarians , even outside the school library sector , that the earlier a person acquires library and information skills the better . |
| 3 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 4 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 5 | She believed that the more a girl covered up the more exciting she was . |
| 6 | One of his most striking findings was that the more a woman was employed the more domestic work was shared . |
| 7 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |
| 8 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , the very fact that no less a person than the prime Minister speaks in such a way is a confession that green issues have intruded upon political life to such an extent that they can no longer be ignored ! |