Example sentences of "the [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The richer the vein was the less the tribute paid by the mine ; the leaner the vein the greater the tribute . |
2 | Most important , of course , was the recognition that , although in the long-term measures to increase income and reduce costs would enable Colleges to become more self-sufficient , in the short-term the finance available would not necessarily allow all desirable changes to be introduced simultaneously , and some prioritising would be required . |
3 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
4 | On the 17th the bunkers are on the left , so Seve missed the fairway to the right and hacks over all the trouble up the right , pitches on and the crowd are all shouting ‘ get in ’ . |
5 | In the 1680s the navy had not succeeded very well in its primary purpose of preventing invasions . |
6 | By the 1680s the power of France was beginning to alarm Englishmen as well . |
7 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
8 | An incredibly powerful Part introduced by Gena Corea ( author of the ground-breaking The Mother Machine , Women 's Press ) turns to surrogacy , and how fertile women are being used ‘ in the name of infertility' . |
9 | In the 1820s the Swan turned up in another museum , run by a perfumier , Thomas Weeks of London . |
10 | In the 1820s the vestry at Christchurch , Spitalfields , had to issue general instructions against the use of the single case in their vaults , advocating the triple case in all instances . |
11 | By the 1820s the movement had spread to England . |
12 | In the long-run the provision of this support will need to be done electronically and suitable tools need to be developed to allow simultaneous interactive online support of users . |
13 | This means that in the long-run the level of real income will always be at the level associated with full employment , whatever the price level . |
14 | And for a special treat after a special day we recommend you put the car away , order up something tasty and drink the finest the Rhineland grapes can produce . |
15 | And to coincide with the temporary exhibitions , LACMA is showing its own new Cezanne , ‘ Sous-bois ’ ( c. 1890 ) , a large oil purchased last year for a multi-million-dollar sum believed to be the largest the museum has ever spent on an acquisition . |
16 | The rush of mergers and acquisitions in America in the 1980s was not the largest the country has ever known . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The 333-acre wood , the largest the trust has bought in Scotland , opened this week , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
19 | The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure . |
20 | Unfortunately , as is well known , a simple design leaves all elements within it exposed so the simpler the concept , the better the execution required to pull it off successfully . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | … So the simpler the conditions the better , the fewer conditions the better . ’ |
23 | In this case , the simpler the window treatment the better ; plain blinds , cafe curtains or just left bare . |
24 | The simpler the system the fewer the risks . |
25 | I 'm trying to reduce the number of business administrators : the fewer there are , the simpler the system and the cheaper it will be . ’ |
26 | Very often , the simpler the aid the more effective it is , and less likely to go wrong . |
27 | In the 308 the side view became more balanced to reflect the increased importance of the rear end with its new engine . |
28 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
29 | He genuinely believed that this was the least the belligerents could do in return for the " sacrifices " made by Spain during the Civil War . |
30 | The words in square brackets should , however , be deleted , or at the least the provisions should be amended to " best endeavours " to place a more stringent obligation on the landlord . |