Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bribes are easier to give than rewards . |
| 2 | Chapter l2 demonstrates that arbitration awards are easier to enforce than experts ' decisions . |
| 3 | In the above passage points ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are easier to explain than points ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | Some packages are easier to use than others in this respect . |
| 5 | Nails are easier to use than screws ; all you need to drive them is a hammer ( see below ) . |
| 6 | So one seems able to conclude that some particular aspects of the overall optimal strategy are easier to understand than others and easier to understand earlier than others . |
| 7 | Often pictures are easier to understand than figures . |
| 8 | It is an undeniable fact that some breeds are easier to train than others , and this is essentially a reflection of their ancestry . |
| 9 | TICKET TO RIDE Encore RK-33R & RK-32ZB Some guitars are easier to copy than others . |
| 10 | Just as some burrow systems are easier to work than others , some contain more rabbits than others . |
| 11 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 12 | Yet again , is the price of having such a distinction doctors who are afraid to act and patients condemned to a lingering death ? |
| 13 | Almost all individualists are willing to concede that actions have some causal antecedents , since they allow that people are shaped and constrained by environmental factors which form their personalities and affect what they do . |
| 14 | The rationale , however , for that is clear : while insurers are willing to concede that accidents will happen , events developing over a long period of time because of a lack of concern for the potential hazards should not be allowed to . |
| 15 | They are easy to find and children are fascinated by this unit . |
| 16 | It has been impossible to judge whether increases in telephone charges could be justified . |
| 17 | West Indians are great West Indian watchers , preferably when they 're winning , and are quick to foul when things do not concur with insular desires and outlook . |
| 18 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 19 | Sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness at British ports — which have already included an attack on a Russian trawler at Peterhead — are likely to intensify as fishermen step up their protests against the imports they blame for prices plummeting at the quayside . |
| 20 | The problem with such a view is that as between the members in general , the various non-profit interests and aspirations are likely to conflict and members will undoubtedly differ in the extent to which they are prepared to forego profits in order to see them fulfilled . |
| 21 | Couples who wish to adopt a child are likely to find that conditions of acceptance are strict , and preliminary preparation and training sessions prolonged and stringent . |
| 22 | The heat is so intense that the rails are likely to buckle and passengers are expected to help repair the track . |
| 23 | Indeed it is an important priority to generate new data which make ethnicity visible , because on the basis of existing evidence it is difficult to distinguish whether the different patterns of support which we can see in minority ethnic kin groups are likely to persist as patterns of settlement stabilize . |
| 24 | As with the determination of the carrier 's capacity , bank customers are likely to demand that banks ascertain the capacity of the issuer of the description by examining certifications issued by trusted third parties . |
| 25 | They are supposed to ensure that constituencies are as equal as possible in size of their electorates . |
| 26 | It would , therefore , have been natural to suppose that genes were made of DNA . |
| 27 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 28 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 29 | Official figures are hard to credit as families fail to claim benefit . |
| 30 | However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned . |