Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink . |
2 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
3 | The new Patents County Court provides , hopefully , a speedier and less expensive way of pursuing smaller claims . |
4 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
5 | Decorating a sheet of music with some pressed flowers is a charming and most unusual way of remembering a favourite song or composer . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |
8 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
9 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
10 | By displaying numbers in a simple and visually revealing way such as , for example , the graph/table hybrid known as ‘ stem and leaf ’ , it is possible to see obvious patterns quickly and focus harder on more puzzling aspects of the data ( Erickson and Nosanchuk 1977 : 20 ) . |
11 | But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way . |
12 | Briefly , the code of practice specifies standards for providing wholesome water , for supplying a constant water supply at the appropriate water pressure , and for treating sewage in a comprehensive and environmentally sensitive way . |
13 | The centre has an annual budget of £14 million and is pioneering research into a " topping cycle " which could produce a cheaper and more efficient way of burning coal in power stations . |
14 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It is a cheaper and more reliable way of getting information about jobs or workers . |
17 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
18 | A better and more organised way of handling the music feed , though , is to pre-record it onto a cued sound tape which can then be fed to the mixer non-stop . |
19 | Indeed , there is a danger that , in the very attempt to entertain its public , a museum may well be tempted to treat its subject matter in a superficial and even frivolous way . |
20 | Then night falls and , by the light of the moon , you can just make out shapes and outlines — the scene is still beautiful but in a calmer and less vibrant way . |
21 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
22 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
23 | Hence far from state welfare being a morally superior form of meeting social needs , as claimed by Fabian socialists , for the New Right state welfare is paternalistic and morally bankrupt , rationing resources in a biased and potentially discriminatory way . |
24 | They were expressions sometimes of pique and envy and sometimes of an essential regenerative process that caused a return to a stricter and more austere way of life and observance . |
25 | As was seen with EDFAX and COMMUNITEL , the applications in various subjects ( e.g. FLEET STREET EDITOR has maps in its Graphics Library which could be used in Geography ) are limitless and school librarians and teachers can encourage pupils to use the technology in a new and educationally productive way . |
26 | But now , almost fifty years later , we have discovered a new and more natural way to stay dry . |
27 | To the general public , it looked like a cheap and particularly horrendous way of gaining publicity . |
28 | This happened most nights and he had grown to think that it was an easier and more interesting way of travelling , particularly as his looks and his load of schoolbooks and his thinness caused people to stop . |