Example sentences of "[conj] [art] more [adj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Rather , all items should be recognised where a sufficiently reliable measure can be obtained , although the more likely it is that an item will have an outcome of zero , the lower its recognised amount will be . |
| 2 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
| 3 | The greater the salesperson 's understanding of the needs of the buyer and the more capable he is of satisfying those needs , the stronger will be his bargaining position . |
| 4 | The more precisely a target audience is defined , and the more homogeneous it is , the greater a course 's potential for an extended impact . |
| 5 | The closer the inspection , the less like a ‘ classical ’ demographic transition the British record seems to be , and the more difficult it is to attribute its timing directly to the development of an urban-industrial society ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be . |
| 7 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 8 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 9 | The more organized the body of knowledge appears to be , the more distinct its academic identity , and the more likely it is to be called a ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 10 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 11 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 12 | At its densest , as in a stone , it is inert , but the more tenuous it is the more freely it moves , for example as the air we breathe ; even the void is ch'i at the ultimate degree of rarefication . |
| 13 | A simple process may become part of his general knowledge but the more complex it is the less reasonable will be his claim that knowledge of it is part of his general skill and knowledge ; the difficulties can be illustrated in United Indigo Chemical Co Ltd v Robinson [ 1931 ] 49 RPC 178 . |
| 14 | However , there is the school of thought that argues that Microsoft does n't want to restrict Windows unduly because the more ubiquitous it is the better Microsoft 's own position . |
| 15 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |