Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coloured , textured as well as plain , the paper comes primarily from British sources , quite a lot is Scottish and smaller amounts are imported from Germany and America . |
| 2 | Clementina Black became editor of its journal , the Women 's Industrial News , in 1895 and later president of the WIC , resigning in 1909 when the Council decided to take no action on wages boards . |
| 3 | For example , a loose-leaf binder is better than an exercise book because you can shuffle and re-classify your notes for tutorials , essay-writing and later exam revision . |
| 4 | With unemployment up from 3 per cent at the beginning of 1991 to 9 per cent , expenditure on unemployment benefit would be markedly higher ; the additional FMk7,000 million needed for this and higher health benefits would be financed out of cuts in other areas of social spending . |
| 5 | This and later attempts led nowhere ; insurgency persisted into the 1960s . |
| 6 | This and later chapters draw on research findings from a research project undertaken by the author together with colleagues in the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts , and the Health Service Management Centre , University of Birmingham , on " Monitoring Managed Competition " . |
| 7 | 1 All quotations from managers and clinicians in this and later chapters have been taken from the " Monitoring Managed Competition " case study interviews , unless otherwise stated . |
| 8 | General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation . |
| 9 | We have already seen the theoretical differences between this and earlier forms of convergence . |
| 10 | Lamer and lamer , but Bob was discreet enough not to press . |
| 11 | And as it becomes easier and cheaper to span the globe , knowledge of local wrinkles is becoming more important , not less . |
| 12 | Audio tapes are much easier and cheaper to produce and use than video . |
| 13 | Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy . |
| 14 | But in terms of its being easier and cheaper to disband and its not carrying the same legal authority , it is not the same as marriage . |
| 15 | Choose a predominantly white or pastel-coloured suite , and liven up the room with colourful wall coverings , curtains or blinds and accessories , which are easier and cheaper to change than a bathroom suite . |
| 16 | In truth , although a large amount of dollars had been consumed , it would have been easier and cheaper task to have started from scratch . |
| 17 | Westinghouse Electric Corp , Pittsburgh has asked 15 cellular and wireless companies for proposals to build a nationwide wireless data network , the Wall Street Journal reported : the company 's idea is to spur the wireless carriers , individually or as part of a consortium , to develop a network that would make it easier and cheaper for users of laptop and palm-top computers and other devices to send and receive information over the air — and in return , Westinghouse promised to buy a substantial amount of transmission capacity for turn-key communications services that it wants to offer over such a network for various types of companies , such as those that manage large fleets of vehicles and security concerns doing remote monitoring — ‘ We 're trying to get a national packet data network that covers , at a minimum , the 30 largest metropolitan areas , ’ the company declared . |
| 18 | Expanding an existing landfill is often easier and cheaper than starting a new one from scratch . |
| 19 | And again , it was easier and cheaper to build on a flat site than a hillside . |
| 20 | Since playgrounds give our children so much , it 's a great shame that in many areas , the old playparks are being allowed to run down until they 're in such a bad state that it 's easier and cheaper to knock them down and build a carpark than try to make them safe . |
| 21 | ‘ It would be easier and cheaper to buy them in from abroad , ’ he says . |
| 22 | I have made enquiries about air fares and as Auckland is considerably easier and cheaper than Christchurch , I would like to start the tour from Auckland . |
| 23 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 24 | These are all things that we can take specific action , some easier and cheaper than others , to do something about . |
| 25 | These are less risky than individual shares and are easier and cheaper to cash in . |
| 26 | Depending upon the kind of problem that has arisen , it may be easier and safer for you to sue for damages for breach of your contract while remaining in your job . |
| 27 | For almost all European States with vulnerable land frontiers it was easier and safer to neglect the navy than the army . |
| 28 | It is easier and safer to free up an ordered society than to re-order a chaotic one . |
| 29 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 30 | Once you have mastered it , it gets easier and easier . |