Example sentences of "[adj -er] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 2 | By doing this you are making it far easier for yourself to judge exactly when you should tack for the mark , since if you take the other tack it is difficult to judge how much the current will sweep you down . |
| 3 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 4 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I guess this one 's easier for him to do than the others . |
| 6 | It was easier for him to decide what was not true . |
| 7 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 8 | They did not work directly on the draw : rather on so lessening his degree of fade that it would be that much easier for him to move the ball the other way when circumstances dictated . |
| 9 | You may remember that Cliff wore a thumb pick and two National finger picks , hence the octaves section in bars 9 and 10 would have been easier for him to pick cleanly than if he 'd used a flat pick and no fingerstyle . |
| 10 | so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club . |
| 11 | I want to support him , I am doing so , even if he refuses to acknowledge that just now because it 's easier for him to bear what has happened if he pretends it is me who is more broken than he . |
| 12 | ‘ You could make it easier for him to bear , Lavinia , ’ she suggested tentatively . |
| 13 | The teacher can remain facing the class , so it is easier for him to maintain attention . |
| 14 | A shower fitment on the bath taps facing the patient makes it easier for him to wash himself thoroughly . |
| 15 | It was easier for him to come to me . ’ |
| 16 | They seemed rustic and backward and yet they were friendlier and easier for him to understand than the humans . |
| 17 | He ordered Rose to take one of Effie 's legs and lift it on to her shoulders , and McAllister the other , to make it easier for him to help the insistent baby on its way . |
| 18 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 19 | If he is to practise standing up , the plinth height may be raised , so that he is perched on the edge with his legs fairly straight : this reduces the support under his seat , but makes it easier for him to stand . |
| 20 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 21 | This method gives children a clear idea of how groups of words relate to each other and makes it easier for them to remember new words and meanings . |
| 22 | This , she thought , would make it easier for them to cope with a very traumatic situation . |
| 23 | It 's sometimes easier for them to cope if they distance themselves from it and rebuild their lives as single parents , without telling people what they 've been through . ’ |
| 24 | Bankers do not make it easier for them to do so by , for example , facilitating the transfer of standing payment orders . |
| 25 | But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade . |
| 26 | The White Paper will make it easier for them to do so . |
| 27 | There are advantages to customers in that it is easier for them to ask questions in a more realistic way in order to ascertain the product 's utility more clearly and quickly . |
| 28 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 29 | We are considering many other aspects in order to improve the position of women in the civil service — to make it easier for them to take jobs , leave to have children , and return later . |
| 30 | However , the standing of their occupations — the fact that a programmer or analyst is regarded as a " professional " in a way in which a typist or word processor operator is not , also makes it easier for them to acquire self-employed status . |