Example sentences of "be [adv] in proportion to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 2 | These twin peaks on the chromatograph are directly in proportion to the amount of freon eleven and freon twelve in the water sample . |
| 3 | None of them actually obey the formal theory which suggests that altruism towards kin in human societies is directly in proportion to shared genes . |
| 4 | The argument rests on the assumption that the number of volatile-rich bodies that would be captured by a planet after it has accreted is roughly in proportion to the mass of the planet . |
| 5 | It was argued that the strength of these pressures was roughly in proportion to the centrality of the speaker 's position in the closeknit group . |