Example sentences of "[adv] effective [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The wasp has no other effect on the environment and the bumble bee is left to busy himself among the plants , pollinating the flowers in a naturally effective way . |
| 3 | This study showed that the homoeopathic remedies were an extremely effective way of managing many patients who had failed to respond to conventional therapies . |
| 4 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 5 | These kind of decisions are normally made by the teacher alone , but it is possible that involving the children in making them might be an extremely effective way of teaching them self-determination and discipline . |
| 6 | Thirdly , the king had an indirect but extremely effective way of taxing external trade : only his silver pennies and halfpennies were accepted within the realm , so any foreign coins brought to a port , whether by a homecoming Frankish trader as profit or by a foreign trader to purchase Frankish goods , had to be converted into Charles 's currency . |
| 7 | The Victorians invented an extremely effective system of central ‘ quality control ’ and ‘ information feedback ’ . |
| 8 | The IBA said the Guardian was ‘ an extremely effective advertising medium ’ long before the Independent 's launch . |
| 9 | This inertia in accepting the need for change was , however , amply compensated for by an extremely effective programme of design , the setting up of new manufacturing facilities and by the retraining of assembly workers to handle the new electronic technology . |
| 10 | Driving it again , alongside the rest of the range , this is immediately , but somewhat intangibly , the nicest Escort to drive , with by no means all the attraction being to do with the convertible top , itself an extremely effective design . |
| 11 | They produced an extremely effective report , which identified a large number of projects which could usefully be established to help Lanarkshire . |
| 12 | She was , from what I saw , an extremely effective teacher of RE . |
| 13 | For all his limitations , Law was an extremely effective politician . |
| 14 | Owing to the depth and reverberation of the sound of the bass drum , rhythmical figures , unless very slow , do not come out clearly , but the roll is quite often used and is especially effective pp , when it imparts to the ensemble a ‘ shuddering ’ effect akin to that produced by a 32- or 64-foot organ-pipe . |
| 15 | One especially effective initiative was a decision of the recruitment and training staff to turn themselves into an in house outplacement centre . |
| 16 | A highly coercive and administratively effective set of measures were instituted and carried out . |
| 17 | Before Babel ( for BBC2 's Horizon ) had a brilliantly effective opening , giving us those familiar words first in Amharic , intoned by a splendidly arrayed Ethiopian , before supplying the English in voice-over . |
| 18 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 19 | modelling personally effective behaviour . |
| 20 | So effective preparation |
| 21 | So effective preparation . |
| 22 | And in all this system , these rudimentary ploys , these crude but , oh , so effective mind games , I discerned the hand not of Goreng but of Rebus . |
| 23 | A new regulatory system to react to qualified audit reports would be both an excessive and a less effective response . |
| 24 | Also , the summer nights are shorter and lighter , and so the street lights probably provide a less effective lure for insects . |
| 25 | The SERPS has been severely downgraded ( including widows ' benefits ) and will become a progressively less effective vehicle for compensating women in particular for their disadvantages in the labour market . |
| 26 | Such stories would seem to offer a much less effective vehicle for such affective development and articulation . |
| 27 | The company said the major impact was on the UK brick company ‘ where a number of less effective manufacturing facilities are to be closed and production concentrated on the low-cost , high-quality plants ’ . |
| 28 | The ‘ organic ’ qualities are clearly important in allowing the adoption of systems of management which , in the absence of less effective leadership in gaining commitment , would hardly be viable . |
| 29 | Being required to have recourse to one remedy rather than another would not fall foul of the principle unless the the latter gave significantly less effective protection to the aggrieved party than the former . |
| 30 | Another less weighted but no less effective criticism is that those areas which most need really effective state intervention are the least likely to produce the conditions in which intervention can work , the most obvious reason for this being that deprived peripheral regions are , as Banfield noted , not locations attractive to administrative and political elites of the kind needed to implement the reforms . |