Example sentences of "and [art] more [adj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The more precisely a target audience is defined , and the more homogeneous it is , the greater a course 's potential for an extended impact . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 … |
7 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
8 | 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 ’ . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ? |