Example sentences of "[coord] [art] smaller [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finer the foam , or the smaller the cartridge , the more often it will need cleaning . |
| 2 | The reason for this , he argues , is that the older the average age of women at marriage the greater the equality between the sexes , the greater the commitment to feminism , and the smaller the age-difference between husband and wife : ‘ Cultural take-off brings about the disappearance of the child-woman and thus of the child-wife ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 3 | The chief lithological effects are probably due to the hardness of the rock and the degree of its jointing : the harder the rock and the smaller the degree of jointing the slower the rate of coastal erosion . |
| 4 | Since it is the larger companies that are included in stock indices ( and the smaller the company the lower its weight ) , the omission of a value for the voting rights is probably not important , except possibly for the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is an equally weighted index covering some 1700 companies . |
| 5 | Furthermore , a great number of items can be learnt in a fixed amount of time if these fit into established and interconnected patterns ; and the smaller the difference between one step and the next , the better the learning . |
| 6 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 7 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 8 | But the smaller the jump the less likely death is , and the more likely is it that the jump will result in improvement . |