Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] be [art] " in BNC.

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1 The better it works , the lower is the rate of unemployment compatible with stable inflation — ie , the lower the NAIRU .
2 The expected rate of inflation : the higher the rate of inflation , the lower is the real value of the expected future returns and hence the higher the rate of return investors will require .
3 The more inelastic the labour supply , the lower is the distortion introduced by any particular income tax rate .
4 The circumstances which govern this price for any given amount of the commodity vary in character from one problem to another ; but in every case the more of a thing is offered for sale in a market the lower is the price at which it will find purchasers ; or in other words , the demand price for each bushel or yard diminishes with every increase in the amount offered .
5 You mention the prevention of the equal user five and ten percent level , right , but bear in mind that the more confident you want to , to be about inference I E the smaller the significance level , right , the , the lower is the power of the test .
6 The higher the bid-price the lower is the rate of interest earned by holding them .
7 In general , the more intensive the measures the lower were the speeds achieved , and the higher the original speeds the greater the reductions possible .
8 Because surgery reduces the postoperative duration of the fluid the earlier it is performed the shorter is the overall duration of the condition .
9 The shorter is the maturity structure , the higher will be the ratio of liquid assets required .
10 The higher an individual 's gross income , the smaller is the tax allowance as a percentage of this gross income so the larger is the percentage of total income on which the individual is paying tax .
11 The larger is the interval CE , the greater are the inflationary dangers inherent in removing Keynesian unemployment by a traditional demand expansion .
12 What is more , it implies that the worse the market does the better is the performance of the underlying company .
13 The smaller the school , the better is the chance of more frequent informal interchange .
14 The more blatantly they were prepared to use their charm , the smoother was the way of escape .
15 However , anti-competitive effects are likely to be less severe the smaller is the subset of competing firms who join the collaborative programme .
16 The higher an individual 's gross income , the smaller is the tax allowance as a percentage of this gross income so the larger is the percentage of total income on which the individual is paying tax .
17 Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level .
18 The nearer to maturity that the instrument is , the smaller is the price effect following an interest rate change .
19 Equally , with the use of appropriate figures , it would show that CDs become more liquid , the nearer they get to maturity , i.e. the nearer to maturity they get , the smaller is the loss or gain as a result of changes in prevailing yields .
20 The more that marriage is based on ability ( the more likely able individuals are to marry other able individuals ) , the slower is the process of regression towards the mean .
21 Paradoxically , the more severe the reflux the higher are the papillae and hence the more likely are the stem cells to be damaged .
22 What is more , the deeper the pit , the higher is the quality of the clay it produces .
23 The less education a woman has , the less important are the delayed costs on later rates of pay of current absence from the labour market , but the higher is the ‘ cost of being female ’ relatively speaking .
24 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 .
25 The amount of the deadweight burden is higher the higher is the marginal tax rate and the size of the wedge , but it also depends on supply and demand elasticities for the taxed commodity or activity .
26 Thus the ‘ law of demand ’ that the higher is the price the less will be the quantity demanded guides the economics predictions regarding tax changes .
27 The higher is , the higher is consumption expenditure and the higher is the level of aggregate demand .
28 The faster a car is moving , the higher is the Doppler shift in frequency .
29 The higher is the rate of inflation , the greater is the negative return from holding money and the more attractive are the alternative interest-bearing assets .
30 and the worse is the mess is , my god
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