Example sentences of "that the [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | RELIABILITY — Check the pile , as it is generally true that the denser the pile , the better the carpet will wear . |
2 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
3 | Using US data for the period April 1966 to March 1967 ( 4,148 observations ) , Elton and Gruber were able to conclude from their findings that the lower the dividend yield the higher the implied personal income tax rate and that there was a clientele effect . |
4 | Remember that the thicker the board , the wider the bevel of the cut . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally . |
7 | Only a very biased , brain's-eye view of the living world would assume that the bigger the brain the more successful the species . |
8 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
9 | Whichever you choose , remember that the bigger the curler or barrel , the bigger the curl . |
10 | Now , even where there is no mis-translation present , there 's still a possibility of a gap in perception and er s this research identified that gap in in perception was associated with er with poor outcomes , okay , whatever the particular problem was , that the bigger the misperception , the worse the outcome around . |
11 | In it , a group of star economists , including Sir Alan Walters , Mrs Thatcher 's personal adviser , showed how , in any stream of traffic , every additional vehicle slows down those already there — and that the slower the speed of the traffic stream being joined , the greater the hindrance caused by every joining vehicle . |
12 | If people are made aware that the better the service , the more they earn , then it really is an incentive to work hard and perform well , says Tony , 28 . |
13 | It can be argued — I think reasonably — that the better the idea , the more justified are attempts to execute it to perfection . |
14 | The downside is that the better the protection , the slower the checking . |
15 | It has been noted at Gartree that the better the governor , the more quickly he goes . |
16 | At the very least the results of the experiment reported in this paper remind us that not all economic agents optimize all the time , though it would appear that the simpler the problem being tackled and the more experience people have of it , the nearer to the optimal they are likely to be . |
17 | It is felt that the best the taxpayer can do is to seek to pay out the monies in an income form to a beneficiary . |
18 | Eventually , however , they concluded that the best the Ministry could do was to prohibit a reduction of charges , though this limited only the most flagrant abuses . |
19 | Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks . |
20 | Pursuing the issue of the fieldworker 's social role , it is worth commenting on a very general and apparently reasonable assumption that the closer the fieldworker is matched to subjects in terms of various social attributes , the more successful he or she is likely to be . |
21 | The epidemiological evidence suggests that the aerosol travels and remains infective at distances of at least 150 metres and perhaps 900 metres or more and that the closer the residence to a cooling tower the higher the risk . |
22 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
23 | What is more , it implies that the worse the market does the better is the performance of the underlying company . |
24 | Indeed he was next to apologetic , declaring that levies from the furthest corners of the land were still on their way , and that the greater the army the better . |
25 | At the age when it first occurs in respect of strong contrary feelings , the young child needs his parents to understand that the greater the yearning , the greater the protest . |
26 | Experience shows that the greater the degree of acceleration that a test attempts to achieve , i.e. , the further removed are the conditions of test from actual market conditions , the greater is the risk of occurrence of changes which never occur at market conditions , i.e. , the test no longer merely accelerates changes occurring under ‘ normal ’ conditions . |
27 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
28 | Boulding ( 1968 ) has identified the crisis of science as arising from the fact that communication among disciplines and subdisciplines is increasingly difficult so that the greater the fragmentation into subgroups the more likely that the total growth of knowledge may be inhibited . |
29 | Pugh pointed out that the greater the output of veterinary surgeons , the swifter the development of the new profession . |
30 | Nonetheless , it seems that the traditional view of a toad 's faithfulness to its birth pond is justified : this study found that between 79 and 96 per cent of toads returned to their original ponds , and , not surprisingly , that the greater the distance between ponds , the less likely toads are to move between them . |