Example sentences of "less [adj] it [be] [that] " 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 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |