Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [adv] effective " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintaining your new figure has never been simpler or more effective . |
| 2 | Curved walls recirculate warm air around rooms , so heating is much easier and more effective . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle . |
| 5 | Complaints , they say , have ‘ dramatically reduced as the service had become cleaner and more effective ’ . |
| 6 | The criterion of historical effectiveness must almost always mean that their history has to be ignored to give space to explain that of bigger and more effective nations . |
| 7 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 10 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Currently companies must install state-of-the-art controls on new plant whose emissions pose a threat to air quality in unpolluted areas , but the proposed changes would permit cheaper and less effective devices . |
| 13 | A transplant is cheaper and more effective . |
| 14 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
| 15 | Biodiesel , made from rapeseed , has few advantages over conventional diesel , according to a report by Germany 's Federal Environment Office , which states that there are cheaper and more effective ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions than by subsidising biodiesel production . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 18 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Also , the more tranquillizers are used , the older and less effective the plunger becomes , therefore , gradually , the same dose of tablets becomes less and less effective . |
| 21 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 22 | The so-called chiral drugs ( from chiros — the Greek word for hands ) made with these molecules are said to be safer and more effective . |
| 23 | Regular light exercise is safer and more effective than occasional bouts of strenuous exercise . |
| 24 | In many cases a tonic remedy would be far safer and more effective . |
| 25 | The Gulf War and its aftermath have shown the crucial need for stronger and more effective world institutions capable of upholding international law and enforcing respect for human rights . |
| 26 | Greater involvement of practising teachers in the professional preparation of new recruits , the stipulation that a high proportion of teacher trainers directly involved with pedagogy should themselves have recent and successful experience of teaching and should create opportunities to renew this experience , and the setting of minimum periods for teacher-training courses and the practical elements within them — all these things are seen as ways of providing new teachers with greater and more effective assistance in the development of the necessary practical classroom skills . |
| 27 | A splinter movement that would , in time , prove greater and more effective than the Ping Tiao . |
| 28 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 29 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |