Example sentences of "and the large [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the larger a parrot 's bill , the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image ( a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor ) . |
| 2 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , the wider the variety of data-collection methods used , and the larger the group studied , the more we are dealing with a community study . |
| 4 | Although for a majority of employees a protected rights contract is usually likely to offer a higher return , there are certain limitations and the accepted wisdom seems to be that the older the employee and the larger the transfer value , the more attractive a section 32 buy-out becomes . |
| 5 | The two machines will include speech synthesis and recognition as a standard feature , and are differentiated by the fact that the smaller model will use Motorola Inc 's 25MHz 68LC040 and the larger the 40MHz 68040 . |
| 6 | Children of parents who smoke during the child 's early life run a higher risk of cancer in adulthood [ 13 ] and the larger the number of smokers in a household , the greater the cancer risk to nonsmokers in the family . |
| 7 | Indeed it is probably true to say , as a rough generalization , that the larger the concern , and the larger the number of people involved or affected , the less likely is it that the concern or interest will be represented accurately , or at all , within an interest-group system . |
| 8 | The further away in time the message was situated , the less likely the speaker is to remember precisely the date and time at which it occurred , and the larger the time-span he is likely to make available for it to have occurred in . |
| 9 | It takes energy to defend a territory from intrusive neighbouring birds , and the larger the territory the larger the border that has to be guarded . |
| 10 | The more varied or diversified the business of the client , and the larger the amount of insurance to be placed , the more likely it is that he will look around the market for himself in order to obtain the best terms . |