Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] effective [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that those figures strikingly demonstrate that lower , rather than higher , tax rates are at once a fairer and more effective way to maximise revenue to sustain improvement in important public services ? |
| 2 | A group of parliamentary radicals founded on Anti-Corn Law Association in London in 1836 to demand total repeal of the tariff , and in 1838 a similar and more effective body was formed in Manchester . |
| 3 | The lave net was a simple but very effective contraption for catching salmon . |
| 4 | Adjusting to small changes is always easier than adjusting to large and the whole aim is that the school should be a nicer and more effective place for everyone . |
| 5 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 6 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
| 7 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 8 | In the new Parliament we must therefore reintroduce the Asylum Bill , opposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats , to create a faster and more effective system of determining who are genuine political refugees , and who are not . |
| 9 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 10 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 11 | The readiness with which the American delegates impressed their character and energy upon the Congress , leading its deliberations , influencing its thought , and even in some instances correcting its faults , is a quiet but signally effective illustration of their better preparation for a more thorough practical acquaintance with the work of deliberative assemblies . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the king had an indirect but extremely effective way of taxing external trade : only his silver pennies and halfpennies were accepted within the realm , so any foreign coins brought to a port , whether by a homecoming Frankish trader as profit or by a foreign trader to purchase Frankish goods , had to be converted into Charles 's currency . |