Example sentences of "is the [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Std Error ; this is the standard error of the beta estimate and the lower this figure is the better the estimate of beta . |
| 2 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a $470m contract for Groupe Speciale Mobile equipment from Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH : the contract covers infrastructure , services and telephones and is the largest the company has yet received for mobile phone kit . |
| 3 | The last time base rates hit 15 per cent was in 1981 but , as Mr Tora points out , ‘ in real terms this is the highest the base rate has ever been . |
| 4 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 5 | MR BRYAN GOULD , 53 , the New Zealand-born contender for the Labour leadership , is the nearest the party still has in high office to a Socialist intellectual in the Anthony Crosland mould . |
| 6 | Paradigmatically , a semantic affinity between two grammatically identical words is the greater the more congruent their patterns of syntagmatic normality . |
| 7 | His first ‘ law of penal evolution ’ was a two-pronged ‘ law of quantitative change ’ : ‘ The intensity of punishment is the greater the more closely societies approximate to a less developed type — and the more the central power assumes an absolute character ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 295 ) . |
| 8 | Second , the greater the variance of v , that is the greater the unpredictability of monetary growth , the less is the influence of any given value of v on real output . |
| 9 | Antiques day at a the , this is the all the places it 's at this Sunday and it 's er , in Chester . |
| 10 | Yes it 's like premiere is n't it like in football the Premiere League which is the first the top league . |
| 11 | Employers with pay policy enables mothers to return to work and pay for quality child-care , can be of great benefit in an area where there 's a high proportion of single parent families or families where the mother is the major the breadwinner At a company offers equal opportunity regardless of race , colour or sex , heightens the feeling of self-esteem and potential of individuals within minority groups and this self- esteem can be catching . |
| 12 | This is the closest the British pension system has got to earnings sharing between spouses , and it does not apply to men and women whose marriages end in divorce . |
| 13 | Why France well this is the closest the formula one circuit comes to our country which is sad because this year like many others Central South racers are leading the world championship … |
| 14 | Eleonora herself is the most the most concentrated depiction of evil in Leapor 's writings , an interesting point which unfortunately is missed by Donna Landry . |
| 15 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 16 | The bobby is the same the world over . |
| 17 | Although the basic structure of all mileage charts is the same the presentation varies and there can be more than one set of information ( e.g. distances in miles and kilometres ) . |
| 18 | THE scene is the same the world over in dark alleys or dimly-lit streets . |
| 19 | Many hearing people assume that sign language is the same the world over . |
| 20 | Yes , gentleman , the problem is the shorter the period , the less chance you have of getting a measurement which is necessarily representative of a general trend . |
| 21 | There is an implicit extraction set just as much in ( 21 ) — and in ( 16 ) — as in ( 20 ) : ( 21 ) Gustav 's chauffeur is the sanest the lady in the fur hat was ( the ) first In structures like ( 21 ) the extraction set is often given explicitly by means of a noun , but if not — as here — then it has to be derived from the context . |