Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 2 | The opening of mail was as extensive and systematically organised as telephone tapping . |
| 3 | According to Carson ( 1981 ) many of these were avoidable and only occurred because safety standards which applied to onshore industries did not apply to offshore installations . |
| 4 | These works , some of which were strongly anti-Catholic and evidently intended as propaganda in the war against Spain , earned him the epithet of ‘ the Spanish heretic ’ in the Index . |
| 5 | Small-scale hydroelectric power , which has mostly already been exploited in Sweden , and biomass are both cheaper and quicker to implement than fossil fuels in India . |
| 6 | In some places the needles were several inches deep and easier to rake than autumn leaves on a tended lawn ; elsewhere they were saturated and packed , or buried among tangled creepers and virulent , shining ivy . |
| 7 | Oil stains are more readily available and easier to use than water stains , which will raise the grain , or spirit stains which can fade . |