Example sentences of "[adj] it is [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more people get used to prodding , weighing and evaluating new planning proposals , the less likely it is that the Hammersmith effect will spread further . |
| 2 | The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder . |
| 3 | The greater , therefore , is the information provider 's knowledge and understanding of those specific tasks and contexts , the more likely it is that the information provided will be valued and used . |
| 4 | The smaller the number of large firms in an industry , ie the more concentrated it is , the more likely it is that the competitive process will be interfered with . |
| 5 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 6 | It is possible to say on the basis of these figures that the higher the specification , the more likely it is that the housewife will be satisfied . |
| 7 | In other areas the general principle is that the greater the judicial element involved the more likely it is that the decision-maker must also hear . |
| 8 | The more we head down the path to a single European voice in the world community , the more likely it is that the Community , as an institution , will take the permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council that we have rightly enjoyed , as have the French , since the United Nations was established . |
| 9 | The more structured the source of words , the more likely it is that the terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and little modified into a thesaurus . |
| 10 | The shorter the period over which prices are sticky in relation to the period over which government policy instruments are sticky , the more likely it is that the policy implications of chapter 4 will remain . |
| 11 | Using the long-run marginal cost curve relevant to the competitive industry , this move from E ' ; to E would produce a social gain equal to the area of the triangle AE ' ; E. Thus , the more a monopolist can achieve economies of scale and lower production costs , the more likely it is that the area of the rectangle B will exceed the area of the triangle A. On balance the cost savings arising from monopoly would then more than offset the deadweight burden triangle , and society would actually gain from monopoly . |
| 12 | This claim has led some to argue that the smaller the unit of local government the more likely it is that the mix of local taxes and services will mirror the population 's desires . |
| 13 | Obviously , the more thorough the investigation , the more likely it is that the vendor will resist giving warranties , on the basis that no reliance will or need be placed on them . |
| 14 | Those with experience stress how important it is that the carer and the dependant should not become indispensable to each other or never spend time apart . |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman has explained how important it is that the rights of the Opposition should be restricted . |
| 16 | And I want to stress this morning how essential it is that the link between the Labour Party and the unions be maintained . |
| 17 | She then proceeds to whinge about how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 18 | We lead her back towards the Odeon Mezzanine and break the ice by saying interestingly how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 19 | How strange it is that the Danish ‘ No ’ vote does not count , while the narrow French ‘ Yes ’ vote does . |
| 20 | Your otherwise excellent cover version album was sadly marred by a long speech detailing how annoying it is that the price of eggs has gone up in Narodny-Karabakh . |
| 21 | IF New Scientist has a wish for 1983 that is in theory achievable it is that the two cultures C. P. Snow described a generation ago should again become one . |
| 22 | By the third day of our discussion , I begin more and more to comprehend how desirable it is that the civilization to which I belong should be utterly destroyed . |
| 23 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 24 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |