Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easier than falling off a log . |
| 2 | This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis . |
| 3 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 4 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 5 | This format is appropriate when sending out a Investment Overview in response to an enquiry from another member of the ABN . |
| 6 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 7 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 8 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 10 | It 's much more fun to go into battle with someone who 's fighting fit than to beat up a victim who 's languishing after a bout of disastrous presentation . |
| 11 | If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not . |
| 12 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 13 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 14 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 15 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 16 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 17 | Fortunately , it was obvious that Luke had done no more than drop off a suitcase . |
| 18 | Yet , if pain remains , who would be so bold as to decide when the patient 's limit of tolerance has been reached ? |
| 19 | To finish , I will remind you of something which Paul Eyles regrets he can not sell in his shop — although we both agree it is indispensable when setting up a tank for fish : patience . |
| 20 | " Candidates do need firmer guidance and practice in examination techniques as fundamental as reading carefully the examination questions , noting the emphasis given by the wording generally to any particular word or phrase and deciding what particular response the question invites , so that a more discerning and discriminating attitude may be adopted to shaping the material to hand to meet the needs of specific questions . " |
| 21 | The economy introduced by the suffix notation may be illustrated by writing out in full as follows Now the direction of dS in the coordinate axes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is given by the direction cosines . |
| 22 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |
| 23 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 24 | There 's nothing more satisfying than dressing up a table to suit the occasion . |
| 25 | It is usual when taking out a mortgage to arrange adequate insurance cover in the event of death . |
| 26 | The best solution to bristleworms is to remove them as soon as possible when setting up a tank , perhaps by quarantining living rock and corals before introduction into the display tank . |
| 27 | This can be just as traumatic and lengthy as coming off an opioid , as the following interviewee experienced : |