the more ~, the more
From The Number of Sents: 18825
TARGET: themore
1. He wrote, "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live."
2. However, the higher the expectations, the more difficult it is to be satisfied.
3. Unfortunately, the more teachers cover, the less kids remember.
4. His wife reluctantly accepted and he quickly noticed that the hotter she was, the faster she counted.
5. The more they looked at the image, the more motivated they were to get to the moon as soon as possible.
6. The more knowledge structures we have, the more confident we can be in making sense of a wide range of messages.
7. However, the more you walk on the tiles, the more energy you can create.
8. And the more times he reads it, the greater will be the repetitive effect on his pattern of thought and action.
9. You probably believe that the more you have, the happier you would be.
10. We can infer, for example, that the more fluently we retrieve an item from memory, the more often we must have encountered it in the past.
11. The more times you're exposed to something, in general, the more you like it.
12. The more you commit to playing your role, the more vivid your experience will be.
13. The better brains became at doing so, the more effective they would be.
14. The more something causes your heart to race, the more important it is to step back before speaking or typing a single word.
15. E・ Scott Geller notes that "the more vividly individuals can imagine themselves performing desired behaviors, the greater the beneficial impact of this technique on actual performance."
16. In contrast, the fewer perspectives you consider, the more susceptible you are to fallacies or misconceptions resulting from a limited view.
17. The more denim was washed, the softer it would get, eventually achieving that worn-in, made-just-for-me feeling you probably get with your favorite jeans.
18. The more diversified the company's products, the greater the need for more varied equipment.
19. The more an event is socially shared, the more it will be fixed in people's minds.
20. But according to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, it's impossible to accelerate any mass (including spaceships and space crews) to the speed of light, as the closer you get to it, the heavier you become, until it becomes practically impossible to get any faster.
21. So, the more time goes by, the more colorful the tree becomes.
22. This finding is interesting because, as science suggests, the more options we have, the harder our decision making process will be.
23. The taller you are, the larger the frame you need.
24. The longer you keep your money invested, the greater the compound interest.
25. And the more perspectives you take into account, the better you can understand something, whether it be yourself, a relationship with another person, or a situation in the world.
26. The greater the force applied to the ground, the greater the force that lifts the athlete.
27. The more representative your data are of the total possible data, the more valid will be the outcome.
28. The more you visualize yourself achieving your goals, the more your mind will search for ways to make it happen.
29. In the less developed world, the percentage of the population involved in agriculture is declining, but at the same time, those remaining in agriculture are not benefiting from technological advances.
30. Yet, the more options they have, the more paralyzed they become.
31. The more you like about what you see, the more able and willing you may be to put yourself out there in the public eye.
32. The more clean-energy ideas like this we come up with, the better our future will be.
33. The more you know about your reader, the greater the chances you will meet his or her needs and expectations.
34. The more we learn about whales, the better able we will be to protect them.
35. Anxiety also sabotages academic performance of all kinds: 126 different studies of more than 36,000 people found that the more prone to anxieties a person is, the poorer his or her academic performance is.
36. The more enthusiastic the dance is, the happier the scout is with his spot.
37. One of the little understood paradoxes in communication is that the more difficult the word, the shorter the explanation.
38. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study.
39. Our instincts tell us the higher we climb up the ladder, the more stress we feel and the weaker our feeling of safety.
40. The longer we stay actively engaged in complex thinking and meaningful work, the more energized the brain is and the more cognitive reserves are being built.
41. They believe the earlier kids start to use computers, the more familiarity they will have when using other digital devices.
42. Anyone who has tried to complete a jigsaw puzzle as the clock ticked on toward a deadline knows that the more they struggle to find the missing pieces, the harder it is to find them.
43. The further they are apart, the weaker the force.
44. Of course, heat will flow from the thermometer into the air, but if the Sun keeps shining on the thermometer, the thermometer will always be hotter.
45. For example, after the consumer has agreed to purchase a car for $8,000, the salesperson begins to add on $100 for tax and $200 for tires.
46. The deeper we go into it, the greater are the disturbing forces we have to face.
47. The farmer will then trade the eggs for the sweater, the sweater for the trivets, and the trivets for his fresh-baked loaf of bread.
48. In essence, the more new information we take in, the slower time feels.
49. In general, the longer a potential respondent delays replying, the less likely he or she is to do so at all.
50. The more meaning you can pack into a single word, the fewer words are needed to get the idea across.
51. If the answer is the former, the therapist could address the boundary issue by being upfront with the individual prior to searching for information online, and ask how they would feel about online information being sought in an effort to inform the therapeutic process.
52. Traditional banks are based on the principle that the more you have, the more you can borrow.
53. The more effectively they communicate that authority, the more secure the child feels, and the better able he is to move away from them toward a life of his own.
54. The funnier a particular cartoon is rated by a participant, the more strongly these parts of the brain are activated.
55. The more you know about baseball, the more that knowledge informs how you see a game.
56. The more time a ship spends at sea, the more the bottom of it becomes covered with a thick and wet growth called fouling.
