Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] understand and " in BNC.

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1 A more complex rule , linking monetary policy to last period 's unemployment rate or balance of payments deficit or whatever , may be less easy to understand and more subject to error because of , for example , inaccuracies in the balance of payments figures .
2 Are they saying that housewives are less able to understand and resist the dangers than other workers , or that all oppressed workers should renounce pay as the way to liberation ?
3 That is why his conduct with regard to Heather was so difficult to understand and why , in the end , I concluded that he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist . ’
4 Today we are more able to understand and appreciate the sound principles of diet , hygiene and medicine which these laws express .
5 That is why social processes are so much more difficult to understand and combat than ideologies .
6 What is more , every change makes the tax more difficult to understand and more expensive to administer .
7 It makes the program more difficult to understand and the FOR address is left on the stack .
8 By underplaying the internal conflicts within the Roman aristocracy and the tensions between Romans and non-Romans in Italy , Polybius created an atmosphere in which Roman conquests became both easy to understand and difficult to question .
9 This model is ‘ simple ’ in that it is fairly easy to understand and to use .
10 The 3U high layout of the R450 makes it as easy to understand and use as any pocket tuner .
11 Natural parents find it just as hard to understand and meet the needs of their adolescent children .
12 Thorndyke predicted that this last condition would be the most difficult to understand and to remember and that the story condition would be the easiest .
13 Despite sometimes experiencing frustration at the slow progress towards Christian Unity , he said , we should try very hard to understand and overcome the difficulties congregations of different faiths have in getting to know each other and working together .
14 There are major difficulties with the use of this technique , since it is likely to result in programs whose structure is extremely opaque , and which are therefore very difficult to understand and debug .
15 Unfortunately the definitions of many of these features are also very difficult to understand and there are twice as many of them .
16 I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect .
17 It had been decided that the child was too young to understand and as a result she might suffer unpleasant after-effects , rather as people tend to do after eating something which disagrees with them .
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