Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the spread basis was sufficiently non-zero to cover the estimated transactions costs , simulated spread arbitrage transactions were initiated . |
| 32 | Having defined the processes in detail under the checklist , it now becomes much easier to allocate the necessary resources , time units , DOPACS units or whatever you like to call them , to successfully complete the project . |
| 33 | You will discover that it is much easier to find the exact point of focus when the zoom is set to telephoto , partly due to the enlargement of the image and partly to the fact that the focus depth of field is much shallower at this end of the zoom . |
| 34 | Again , it will be much easier to achieve the desired response with a young puppy . |
| 35 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 36 | Although it is normal to be served long grain rice at a Chinese restaurant , it is much easier to eat the shorter grains with chopsticks . |
| 37 | Melanie thought Aunt Margaret was exceedingly brave to dare the rusty , maniacal geyser and to light it , against its wishes , and force it to spew out hot or fairly hot water . |
| 38 | It is much fairer to charge the same rate for water to everybody " . |
| 39 | This is not due to a simple depletion of transcription factors as twelve copies of the transgene in Long 7 , and 30 copies in Long 12 gave the expected expression ratio . |
| 40 | " [ T ] he language of an exemption clause is prima facie to be construed against the person who drafted it or put it forward … [ and ] the language of an exemption clause must be sufficiently explicit to disclose the common intention of the parties without straining the language " ( Cumming-Bruce LJ in Acme Transport Co Ltd v Betts [ 1991 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 ) . |
| 41 | As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) . |
| 42 | Kenny 's Blackburn Magic ( PolyGram Video ) might more suitably be titled The Alan Shearer Show , so much does the prolific England striker dominate this one-hour collection of match highlights from Rovers ' barnstorming entry into the Premier League . |
| 43 | The great challenge is not so much describing the physiological and anatomical properties of the cells in these streams but understanding their functional significance . |
| 44 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 45 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 46 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 47 | This might have been less dangerous had the Ottoman Empire held together , but it was crumbling fast and something was bound to take its place . |
| 48 | The party was greatly relieved to get the whole business over and done with . |
| 49 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 50 | ‘ I need to be mechanically perfect to beat the best . ’ |
| 51 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 52 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 53 | It 's so easy to marry the wrong person . |
| 54 | ‘ Perhaps because it 's so easy to believe the worst of you . ’ |
| 55 | In reality , however , it is not so easy to separate the two . |
| 56 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 57 | I MISSED the first performance of Peter Thompson 's Chinese Lantern Music at last year 's Summer Serenade , was so delighted to hear the complete work — the third in a series of commissions for local composers — played by the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra on Wednesday . |
| 58 | Being in a state of readiness for the unpredictable does seem to result in it being less easy to use the quiet periods of duty time productively , which includes relaxing and taking care of oneself . |
| 59 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 60 | If it is difficult to define inner cities in terms of some geometric configuration of urban morphology , it is even less easy to identify the inner city within any national political economy . |