Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] effective [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Moving Seawitch and herself out of Gibraltar would be the quickest and most effective way of killing public interest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We are unilateralist because it is the only sane , only moral and only effective thing to be . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But presented in this systematic and visually effective manner , they provoked viewers into consideration about the state of the nation . |
| 20 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 21 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 22 | A highly coercive and administratively effective set of measures were instituted and carried out . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 26 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 27 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 28 | F-Plan dieters know that high-fibre carbohydrate foods are dieters ' friend number one they are the pioneers of a completely new and more effective attitude to food and weight control . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Smells , so often the reason for disinfection , are more appropriately dealt with by improving ventilation , remedial maintenance if necessary and more effective cleaning . |