Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Insurance pension is the most important component of social security provision and so the lower the incomes of pensioners , the greater the proportion the National Insurance pension comprises , and the less is derived from occupational pensions . |
| 2 | The clergy was , of course , an exception to the rule of hereditary classes ; since clergymen were ( in theory at least ) celibate , they had no legal heirs , and so the lower ranks of the clergy were open to the younger sons of noblemen or , more rarely , to commoners . |
| 3 | The idea of increasing the diameter in waterwheels was that the number of ‘ buckets ’ could be increased and so the bigger the wheel the more power was generated . |
| 4 | And so the happier to see you , Johnnie . |
| 5 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 6 | The farther the galaxy , the redder its light , and so the faster it is receding . |
| 7 | The reason is simple : the larger the animal , the smaller its surface area in relation to its volume , and so the smaller the relative area through which heat can be lost . |
| 8 | The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen . |
| 9 | This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it . |
| 10 | When they are dead and gone , we shall still be British , and all the better for it . |
| 11 | ‘ Broken ’ is a mini-album , recorded without the permission of the American record company , a much harder , uglier affair than the debut album , ‘ Pretty Hate Machine ’ , and all the better for it . |
| 12 | For the most part , however , this is Nielsen straight and unadorned , and all the better for so being . |
| 13 | After that they had decided to get across the other side and ‘ maybe give the girls a fright ’ , an entirely mad idea that could only end in tears , and all the better for it . |
| 14 | It 's a good story and all the better for being more or less true . |
| 15 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 16 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 17 | Dentdale is a typical sixteenth-century English countryside , peaceful , undisturbed and all the sweeter for its absence of fast roads and speeding motorists . |
| 18 | Comparing this with the earlier period , Keeble ( 1976 ) wrote : ‘ During the 1960s , and especially the later 1960s , concentration has been replaced by increasing spatial dispersion of manufacturing industry , both to relatively unindustrialized subregions and to the peripheral areas , ( p. 15 , emphasis in the original ) . |
| 19 | The smaller the proportion , the lower the demand and obviously the higher is velocity . |
| 20 | If people are well trained , you 've got lots of people in turn you know when you 've got absenteeism or holidays , you 've got lots of people who could be slotted to different positions for you and obviously the better trained people are , it does help with the talent , it makes you more flexible and you 've got more people who can possibly go for certain jobs . |
| 21 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |
| 22 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |
| 23 | Only one in five teachers believe that they have and much the greater proportion of these are scale 3 teachers and above . |
| 24 | To my mind , Niki was technically and mechanically the better driver ; he was willing to make the absolute best of even the most minimal chance . |
| 25 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 26 | And that 's important to us because we can give erm people who are responsible for a particular department full and immediate access to the data which relates only to their department and not the wider organization . |
| 27 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 28 | Against these drawbacks , however , must be weighed the greater professionalism of teachers on the French model , and thus the greater respect they may be accorded by pupils and parents . |
| 29 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 30 | The smaller the black hole , the shorter the distance the particle with negative energy will have to go before it becomes a real particle , and thus the greater the rate of emission , and the apparent temperature , of the black hole . |