Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cycling makes you fitter and gives you a better life expectancy . |
| 2 | Individuals have different preferences of course , but a full-length zip makes it easier to regulate body temperature . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So in real terms , their attempt to buy off inflation through borrowing makes them poorer than they would otherwise have been . |
| 5 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |
| 6 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ A student whose education enables him later in life to earn a higher income should return some of that income . ’ |
| 8 | Good layout of an instruction makes it easier to read . |
| 9 | Mounting the pipe in a vice makes it easier to cut , but be careful not to crush it . |
| 10 | The pragmatist knows it better than the idealist . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thereafter , expect inflation to creep up as stronger demand makes it easier for firms to charge customers for cost increases caused by devaluation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This in turn makes them cheaper and small enough to fit the average pocket in every sense . |
| 15 | The realisation that this is a racist society , a society which wishes them dead for the colour of their skin , accentuates their loneliness , and their isolation in turn makes it harder for them to fight against racism . |
| 16 | And this in turn makes it easier to connect the various fittings . |
| 17 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 18 | I know that having a seventy-eight-centimetre leg makes me shorter than average , but Jesus . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A specialist creative package like Factual Design Painter allows you greater control over the way the brushes , pens and ‘ comms ’ operate , as you can see from the Brush Behaviour palette at the bottom left corner |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size . |
| 23 | This assumption makes it easier to understand some of the sudden political changes in south-eastern Britain . |
| 24 | However , the War Wagon differs from an ordinary chariot in several details — its heavily armoured tower makes it harder to destroy , for example . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A free telephone help line makes it easier for people in Lincolnshire to get benefit advice or information . |
| 27 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |
| 28 | Women tend to cover their mouths while laughing , and males show true merriment ( and true anger ) mainly after hours when their culture allows them greater freedom of behaviour while drinking alcohol . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |