Example sentences of "[art] [adv] you [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 2 | The less you feel like it , the more you need it . |
| 3 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 4 | The less you rely on any drugs , the better for your health in the long run . |
| 5 | That 's your ace in the hole ; the more you concentrate on note choice , the more quality you 're gon na get . |
| 6 | Whatever the products you sell , the more you know about them , and the more you show that knowledge to potential customers , the better you will be at making sales . |
| 7 | Many things about AIDS are uncertain but the more you know about it , the less you will be afraid — and you could become a very good friend to people who have to live with this problem . |
| 8 | The degree to which this is possible is largely determined by the prevalent market conditions , but is also partly influenced by your knowledge of the subject ; the more you know about oriental rugs , the better your chances of negotiating a favourable price . |
| 9 | The more you know about their fads and foibles , their strengths and weaknesses , the better you will be able to deploy your arguments to persuade them to buy . |
| 10 | And if you want to become a manager one day , the more you know about now he or she survives , the better . |
| 11 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 12 | The more you try to , the more corrupt you and your organization are likely to be . |
| 13 | In general as the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth noted in 1980 , ‘ the more you earn the more you get on top of pay ’ . |
| 14 | So the more you invest in curious methods of murder — your melting ice-dagger , your piano-key trigger — the more you increase the risk that some ingenious author has been there before you . |
| 15 | The more you think about it , the more you realize that life is riddled with Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma games , not just human life but animal and plant life too . |
| 16 | If we define publishing as the production of information in a printed form you may begin to realise just what I mean ; price lists , company reports , catalogues , advertisements , newsletters , memos , the list gets longer the more you think about it . |
| 17 | I say foolishly because ( it ) grows worse the more you see of it … |
| 18 | YOU are not the most mercenary sign of the zodiac , which is probably a good thing considering that the more you chase after your pound of flesh this coming year , the less likely you are to get it . |
| 19 | The more you have on top , the more it lifts you ; the more you have on the bottom , the more you 're pulled down . |
| 20 | The more you have on top , the more it lifts you ; the more you have on the bottom , the more you 're pulled down . |
| 21 | The more you learn about it , the more you understand how to use it , the less likely you are to subject your raw materials to absurd or unharmonious treatments . |
| 22 | Ability with sound systems only comes with practice and the more you learn about sound , the more respect you have for it . |
| 23 | THE more you learn about Raine Spencer the more you goggle . |
| 24 | It is obviously useful to be able to look up words that you ca n't remember in a dictionary , but in addition you will find that the more you work on your dictionary , whether it is on a computer or on cards , the more you memorise your vocabulary . |
| 25 | The more you work in here the healthier you get . ’ |
| 26 | They have no right to stop you and are likely to co-operate the more you consult with them and keep them informed . |