Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] effective [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have trees or fences around the pool , the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be heavy-gauge fishing line stretched about seven feet above the pool . |
| 2 | Printed material , in all its diversity of forms , is one of the cheapest and most effective methods for individual instruction about the various aspects of computerized information retrieval . |
| 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 | Moving Seawitch and herself out of Gibraltar would be the quickest and most effective way of killing public interest . |
| 5 | One comes back to what most people are agreed on : in the short term the simplest , cheapest , quickest and most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to use energy more efficiently , in both homes and factories . |
| 6 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 7 | In my experience this is one of the quickest and most effective ways of drawing children into the drama ; you are helping them to make sense of what they 're doing , you 're showing them clearly that what they 're doing matters . |
| 8 | Orcs and Goblins are one of the most popular and most effective armies in the Warhammer game . |
| 9 | A group of parliamentary radicals founded on Anti-Corn Law Association in London in 1836 to demand total repeal of the tariff , and in 1838 a similar and more effective body was formed in Manchester . |
| 10 | It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We are unilateralist because it is the only sane , only moral and only effective thing to be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The European Court has stated that the concept of abuse is to be assessed by determining whether an undertaking in a dominant position ‘ has made use of the opportunities arising out of its dominant position in such a way as to reap trading benefits which it would not have reaped if there had been normal and sufficiently effective competition ’ . |
| 15 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The results which management felt had been achieved included improved productivity , reduced time to market for product innovations , decreased inventory and rapid and more effective decision making . |
| 18 | I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective . |
| 19 | Although it is generally assumed that the free movement of persons within the European Community will increase the impact of ‘ international crime ’ on the internal security problems of the Member States and that more intensive and more effective law enforcement co-operation will be required , there is uncertainty about how better co-ordination can be achieved . |
| 20 | The MP 's on the Committee , who agreed unanimously on the report , criticise the Government 's record on energy efficiency , stating that energy efficiency " is the most obvious and most effective response to the problem of global warming " . |
| 21 | But in 1960 Britain 's cancellation of her own costly and dubiously effective rocket project , Blue Streak , had been facilitated and offset by the American promise to supply the Skybolt stand-off missile . |
| 22 | The specialty reviews , for example , have to assess current and projected needs , define criteria for tertiary services , and advise on the most cost effective and clinically effective locations — all by the end of May . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 30 | But the way in which the lymph nodes ( like some other organs of the immune system ) sequester replicating HIV particles is so unexpected that it may well point to unexpected and more effective means for the treatment of AIDS . |