Example sentences of "the [adj] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DG said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future . |
| 2 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 3 | In other words , in our model we accept the view that the inflation-unemployment trade-off is less favourable in the long-run than in the short-run , but we do not adopt the more extreme view that the trade-off disappears completely in the long-run . |
| 4 | The main problems in the Volga region , however , lay more in the administrative than in the political domain . |
| 5 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 6 | The government takes proportionately more from the rich than from the poor . |
| 7 | In taking proportionately more from the rich than from the less well off , income tax reflects the principle of ability to pay . |
| 8 | The dysphagia recurrence rate during follow up was higher in the corrosive than in the peptic stricture group . |
| 9 | The exercise of new found autonomy has been more apparent in the cultural than in the diplomatic sphere . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 12 | Broadly , however , it tended to emphasise the natural as against the artificial , the spontaneous as against the imposed , experience and emotion as against cold rationality , inwardness and imagination as against the outward and formal . |
| 13 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 14 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |
| 15 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 16 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 17 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 18 | The use that is made of it , however , depends more upon the decision of the individual than upon the expectations of the Church . |
| 19 | They had no idea , as yet , that the coming of modern translations , and the making of English into an international language , would destroy the commonness of a single text of the Bible which was the property of the simple as of the sophisticated . |
| 20 | In practice , Rameau 's part-writing works perfectly well on period instruments , especially when we recall that at the Paris Opéra there were many more players on the outer than on the inner parts . |
| 21 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 22 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 23 | Death is a potent dissuader , to the promiscuous as to the drug abuser , but the least-educated and the most-deprived have less to live for . |
| 24 | I always think it would fit in as well in the Mediterranean as in the North Atlantic , because it has the black and white colouring common among all sorts of species of northern bird , and the brightly coloured bill and feet typical of birds that live in hot countries . |
| 25 | It was less obviously unjustified in the natural than in the social sciences , but equally marked . |
| 26 | Broadly , however , it tended to emphasise the natural as against the artificial , the spontaneous as against the imposed , experience and emotion as against cold rationality , inwardness and imagination as against the outward and formal . |
| 27 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | That to the bottom left is badly drawn at the base , the foot is crooked and the gadroons are smaller at the left than to the right . |
| 29 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 30 | A second group of subjects presented with a non-verbal dichotic task yielded a left ear advantage and more eye movements towards the left than towards the right . |