Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , the bigger the fish , the less vulnerable it is to predation . |
| 2 | This is probably because only the strangest experiences are remembered by people waking normally after a night 's sleep , and the more everyday the dream content , the less memorable it is . |
| 3 | All the electronic equipment used should be of as high a standard as possible since the poorer the recording , the less useful it is as a classroom aid to teaching . |
| 4 | Thus , the more suitable the application is for bit-pattern index handling ( small numbers of possible attributes ) , the less suitable it is for inverted file handling . |
| 5 | In general , the more liquid an asset , the less profitable it is , and vice versa . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 8 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 9 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 10 | The more complex professional action becomes , the less likely it is to have any effect . |
| 11 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 12 | For instance one can readily see how insects adapt themselves to many environments but the larger the animal the less likely it is to survive if the environment drastically changes . |
| 13 | Defence ( 10 credits ) : This protects the player against attackers ; the higher the defence rating the less likely it is your guy will be tackled . |
| 14 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 15 | But the more people who obtain post-school education , the less likely it is to provide them with entry to a career . |
| 16 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 17 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 18 | The less constrained the genre , primarily interactional ‘ chat ’ , for example , the less likely it is that we can confidently state norms of expectation which will generalise even over the experience of the English-speaking population . |
| 19 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 20 | The further in-service training occurs , literally and metaphorically , from their school base the less likely it is that teachers will be able to sustain personal changes and motivation for innovation . |
| 21 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 22 | Where the breach is caused by inadvertent default the more serious the type of breach covered by the clause , the less likely it is to be reasonable . |
| 23 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 24 | the older the baby gets the less common it is to find the cold injury . |
| 25 | The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current . |
| 26 | owing to the difficulty of forecasting [ … ] the less possible , and indeed , the less desirable it is for the person purchasing to specify what the other contracting party is expected to do [ … |
| 27 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 28 | A simple process may become part of his general knowledge but the more complex it is the less reasonable will be his claim that knowledge of it is part of his general skill and knowledge ; the difficulties can be illustrated in United Indigo Chemical Co Ltd v Robinson [ 1931 ] 49 RPC 178 . |
| 29 | Very often , the simpler the aid the more effective it is , and less likely to go wrong . |
| 30 | Broadly speaking the more immediate the feedback the more effective it is except that there comes a point at which , to use Miller 's ( 1953 ) distinction , learning feedback becomes action feedback , the latter improves the current response whereas the former improves succeeding responses . |