Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] easier " in BNC.

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1 Individuals have different preferences of course , but a full-length zip makes it easier to regulate body temperature .
2 This policy has many advantages : It makes it possible to concentrate development and testing work on key points affecting safety , reliability , protection from radiation , and improved capacity ; Thanks to the large orders for identical equipment , the industry can anticipate its work load long in advance , equip itself accordingly , and schedule its fabrication work in the most economical manner ; Construction times are short ( now only five years for a 900-MWe unit ) because the working drawings are identical and a defective item of equipment can be replaced promptly ; And finally , standardisation makes it easier to train the operating personnel and reduces maintenance problems .
3 One would have to say that the standard of dress on the European Tour is nowadays not too far removed from that in the States , bearing in mind that the climate on that side of the Atlantic makes it easier to look the part .
4 Good layout of an instruction makes it easier to read .
5 Having fewer suppliers makes it easier to move towards just-in-time delivery of components .
6 Mounting the pipe in a vice makes it easier to cut , but be careful not to crush it .
7 To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey .
8 Thereafter , expect inflation to creep up as stronger demand makes it easier for firms to charge customers for cost increases caused by devaluation .
9 As far as the motor is concerned the software.intensive approach makes it easier to implement more sophisticated control schemes aimed at maximising motor performance .
10 And this in turn makes it easier to connect the various fittings .
11 The length of the bill makes it easier for the birds to reach fruit and the bill colour may help them to recognise their own species , of which there are about forty .
12 The existing knowledge about the employee from inside the organization makes it easier to decide whether he or she is able to perform the work well .
13 The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size .
14 This assumption makes it easier to understand some of the sudden political changes in south-eastern Britain .
15 Representing the individual as a series of interpenetrating planes of increasing fineness and subtlety makes it easier to appreciate how changes on any one plane can affect the others .
16 A free telephone help line makes it easier for people in Lincolnshire to get benefit advice or information .
17 Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents , so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications .
18 Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications .
19 A shower fitment on the bath taps facing the patient makes it easier for him to wash himself thoroughly .
20 The new media offer , as it were , a prism through which we are better able to understand the existing structures of broadcasting : the threat makes it easier to appreciate what will vanish as well as what will come about .
21 A large number of sections makes it easier to locate paperwork only if it is correctly filed .
22 If you are in a strange place , a map makes it easier to find your way around .
23 Many experts argue that the Persian knot makes it easier to produce intricate , curvilinear designs by enabling the weaver to tie more knot to the square inch , but this theory is by no means universally accepted in the carpet trade .
24 The animal 's increasing vulnerability to malnutrition and disease makes them easier to trap .
25 Orwell warned in 1946 that the English language ‘ becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish , but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts . ’
26 Freight , already profitable , should boom as ( a ) road congestion rises ; ( b ) the opening of the Channel tunnel cuts the cost of trans-Europe rail trips ; and ( c ) new technology makes it easier to switch piggy-back trailers between lorries and trains .
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