Example sentences of "the [adv] they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do governments throw sand in the works , so that the less they interfere the better ? |
| 2 | American trains were classless , but none the less they had a wide range of different styles of accommodation , and the passengers paid for the luxury appropriate to their standing . |
| 3 | The sooner they find a cure , the better . |
| 4 | But the further they go the more interesting they get and of course er the visitors tonight have already had a good win . |
| 5 | ‘ They were in a state because the more they struggled the deeper they sank . ’ |
| 6 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 7 | The more things change the more they stay the same . |
| 8 | The more things change the more they stay the same . |
| 9 | The more things change , the more they stay the same : taking a leaf from our own book , InformationWeek says it procured an internal IBM memo written June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems Jeff Mason telling staffers not to push System/3x users to the RS/6000 , which he himself is responsible for , for fear of undercutting sales of the company 's highly profitable higher margin AS/400s . |
| 10 | It seems that the more things are different , the more they stay the same ! |
| 11 | It seems that the more things are different , the more they stay the same ! |
| 12 | The more things change , the more they stay the same . |
| 13 | The more the boys looked at him the more they realised the man was totally oblivious of his surroundings . |
| 14 | In particular , the more people 's leisure choices are ‘ privatized ’ — pushed into the home , made a matter of individual taste — the more they become a matter of public interest . |
| 15 | ‘ I think the more arrogant or full of themselves they are , the more they think the songs are about them . |
| 16 | The more people see them the more they see the human frailties . |
| 17 | Social security were paying my bills for me , but the more they paid the more they took off me . |
| 18 | Indeed , the more they play the more I may say drugged you become with the sound and the beating of it until you have to prevent yourself swaying around with the natives . |
| 19 | It established beyond doubt that it was the eye-spots that worked best , and that the more realistic they were the more they startled the birds . |
| 20 | They looked at them and looked at them and the more they did the less they understood . |