Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No price mark has been suggested for the nCube 3. nCube claims its multi-purpose machines offer a price-performance ratio that is 20 times superior to present-day mainframe computers , making them highly suitable for the commercial data processing market , particularly as Oracle Parallel Server is now shipping with current models . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll stat them twice weekly for the next four months ’ . |
| 3 | But the overlap in time and content makes it most convenient for the two groups to be discussed together . |
| 4 | This continuous appraisal helps to determine the prices at which securities are traded and makes it much easier for the institutional investors to reach a swift decision when they are invited to subscribe to or underwrite a new issue . |
| 5 | If it is , this will make it much easier for the creative people : if they can not actually find a typical individual customer , they can at least get a reasonably good idea of whom they are trying to reach . |
| 6 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 7 | Defeat in Canada merely sharpened France 's desire for revenge in Europe and as October gave way to November conditions in the Channel and Bay of Biscay worsened , making it ever harder for the British squadrons to hold their stations . |
| 8 | Is it still feasible for the British Parliament to pass an Act repealing or amending the 1972 European Communities Act which enshrined the Treaty of Rome in British law ? |
| 9 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 10 | If that approach prevails in the higher courts , it will amount to a major reverse , making it more difficult for the ordinary citizen to complain of unlawful action by a public authority . |
| 11 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 12 | Make it more glamorous for the poor wretches . ’ |
| 13 | Mitterrand may try to appoint as Prime Minister a politician who will make it particularly difficult for the new majority formed by UDF and RPR to work together . |
| 14 | Stirling later made a particularly telling comment when he said that ‘ the agreement of three architects in any particular section would render it quite impossible for the other judges , as unprofessional men , to record an adverse opinion ’ . |
| 15 | When other Community Governments are prepared to extend those rights to their people , is not it completely wrong for the British Government to refuse to do the same for the British people ? |
| 16 | The problem is going to be the sheer weight of administration of schemes like this , and that 's going to make it very difficult for the small firm , because the solicitor sitting at his desk is his own manager , his own salesman and his own factory floor worker . |
| 17 | Even the perfect fine-class transcriptions resulted in extremely large numbers of paths ( an astonishing average of 862,300 ) , making it very difficult for the syntactic component to distinguish the correct interpretation . |
| 18 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |
| 19 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 20 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |