Example sentences of "be that [art] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 2 | The paradox is that the more prejudices are criticized , the more prejudices of liberalism are justified . |
| 3 | So , what we say is that the more things are eight until twelve . |
| 4 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 5 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 6 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 7 | The assumption here is that the more quality names you have in the race , the more likely the product is to be of high calibre . |
| 8 | The paradox was that the more ideology stressed the role of sex within conjugality , the more it was necessary to describe and regulate those forms of sexuality which were outside it . |
| 9 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |