Example sentences of "the [adv] [adv] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not only the less sprightly who use a kneeling stool in the garden . |
| 2 | That way , the further down you press the cap , the less air enters . |
| 3 | The further back you apply the weight , the greater the effect . |
| 4 | There really is no need to sail more than 300m off the beach ; remember that the further out you sail the longer the swim back in should your equipment break . |
| 5 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 6 | ‘ The older the doctor and the nurse , the more effectively they foster the self-reliant , independent behaviour in the elderly patient . |
| 7 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 8 | The more fully the priesthood reflects the whole range of humanity , the more fully we see the implications of humanity as created in the image of God . ’ |
| 9 | The more intense the belief , the more magnetically we attract the corresponding experiences . |
| 10 | The more precisely you measure the position of a particle , the less precisely you can measure its velocity , and vice versa . |
| 11 | However , the more often you open the bottle of any essential oil , the greater the chance of oxidation and thus the reduction in the oil 's therapeutic properties . |
| 12 | Moreover , the more accurately one measures the position , the shorter the wavelength of the light that one needs and hence the higher the energy of a single quantum . |
| 13 | The key to this is the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , which states that one can not measure both the position and speed of a particle to great accuracy ; the more accurately you measure the position , the less accurately you can measure the speed , and vice versa . |
| 14 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 15 | ‘ The better swing you have , ’ wrote Hogan ‘ the more definitely you become a hooker . ’ |
| 16 | It is difficult to ascertain just how effective are conferences and seminars in promoting co-operation and coordination but at the very least they provide a forum for practitioners to take the opportunity for co-operative efforts . |
| 17 | At the very least they wanted a home help once or twice a week , to assist this mother with fifteen children to look after . |
| 18 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 19 | At the very least it prompts the response ‘ What elements of the media ? |
| 20 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 21 | His theory is controversial , to put it mildly ; but at the very least he portrays the kind of different , ‘ alien ’ intelligence our ancestors may have had . ) |
| 22 | Dr Swire , whose daughter Flora was among the Lockerbie dead , said : ‘ At the very least I think the Libyans will blame the sanctions imposed after Lockerbie for the crash . |