Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the louder she shouted the more he would believe her . |
| 2 | Do governments throw sand in the works , so that the less they interfere the better ? |
| 3 | The more we live by our intellect , the less we understand the meaning of life . |
| 4 | So the less one has the less he is tempted to extend the range of his needs indefinitely . |
| 5 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 6 | The less the intelligence of a creature , the more instinctive are the behavioural patterns programmed into it and the less it possesses the capacity to learn from experience . |
| 7 | The less it happened the more important it became . |
| 8 | The more heritable a predictor is , the less it reflects the advantages or disadvantages of a student 's environment , and no predictor of potential academic ability is as heritable as the scores on intelligence tests and their close correlates , the aptitude tests . |
| 9 | ‘ My good nephew , if you wish to protect Master Shallot , the less he knows the better . ’ |
| 10 | The less you drink the better for the baby . |
| 11 | This means that the better we understand the environment in which the output of a system will be used , the better we will be able to estimate the potential value of those outputs , and to design systems accordingly . |
| 12 | The better he appraises the situation , the . |
| 13 | The sooner we win the league , the sooner I can get a rest ! ’ |
| 14 | The sooner we catch the killers the better . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The sooner we go the better for everyone . ’ |
| 16 | The sooner we start the better , ’ said Johnson . |
| 17 | The sooner she informed the hospital of her intention , the sooner she could actually leave . |
| 18 | The sooner I see the Sorbothane range of protective sports equipment , the better I 'm going to feel . |
| 19 | The sooner you make the announcement that you 're moving your horses away from Britain the better . ’ |
| 20 | The sooner you tackle the stain , the more chance you will have of removing it . |
| 21 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
| 22 | He knew he was behaving ludicrously and the sooner he got the wench locked up with a pack of nuns the better . |
| 23 | … the longer we pretend The harder it becomes to drop the pretence , Walk off the stage , change into our own clothes And speak as ourselves . |
| 24 | The longer we delay the worse it will become and the more expensive it will be to the nation at large . ’ |
| 25 | Kenneth McDougall wrote about the outcome in the editorial of The British Deaf News of June 1961 : The longer we live the oftener we find how wrong we can be . |
| 26 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 27 | But the further they go the more interesting they get and of course er the visitors tonight have already had a good win . |
| 28 | Being a half brother to Rubstic and Kildimo , the further he goes the better he will get . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They were in a state because the more they struggled the deeper they sank . ’ |
| 30 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |