Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [adj -er] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's happy to eat round it , leaves the manger clean and eats more slowly , which is obviously better for his digestion . |
| 2 | It is generally longer for a first baby and may take around 1620 hours . |
| 3 | It is normally easier for the plaintiff to succeed in an action for breach of statutory duty but not always . |
| 4 | Unwieldy it may be in certain respects , but it is surely better for a model of meaning destined to serve a descriptive as opposed to a theoretical study to err on the side of generosity of scope , rather than on the side of austerity . |
| 5 | It is even rarer for Parliament to resolve against a measure . |
| 6 | Given the choice , and assuming that precious few of us are blessed with the ideal soil type , it is probably better for garden land to err on the heavy side . |
| 7 | Since you are agreeing to make regular payments over a number of years , it is probably easier for you to pay by Banker 's Order or Direct Debit Mandate when the payments will automatically be made from your bank account . |
| 8 | It is also cheaper for parents — they pay an average £60 for 42 hours of care a week under the Glaxo scheme , compared with a subsidised £85 the company anticipates it would charge for a workplace nursery . |
| 9 | In these circumstances it is often easier for parents to support their children 's non-attendance by providing bogus explanations for it . |
| 10 | The insurers now have groups of approved repairers and it is often easier for a customer to use those , than to go off and find their own repairer . |
| 11 | I think it is much healthier for a young artist to be treated like that , rather than told play this or that in a particular way . |
| 12 | Whether it is much safer for the elderly , infirm and short-sighted was not disclosed . |
| 13 | Whether the councillor will press his claim to disclosure will depend on political factors ( for example , in councils which regularly change political complexion it is much easier for an opposition party councillor to get information than in one which is solidly of one political complexion ) . |
| 14 | It is much easier for us to disobey God when we have developed a calloused conscience , or have paralysed our desires for God . |
| 15 | In example a ) it is much easier for the customer to move directly to the checkout and exit , without making additional purchases . |
| 16 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |
| 17 | If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males . |
| 18 | If it is much easier for senior staff to make negative rather than favourable assessments of his ability , the field officer is faced with an important practical problem of how he portrays himself to his seniors as good at his job . |
| 19 | Moreover , as we shall see when we discuss collaborative teaching later in this chapter , it is much easier for two teachers than three or more to undertake the shared planning on which the success of classroom collaboration depends . |
| 20 | One thing we discovered was that it is much faster for the team to close up as soon as the game starts and just hold that position as close to the next person as possible . |
| 21 | In simple language , it is much harder for our members , coming from a close-knit professional community , to step out of line . ’ |
| 22 | it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 24 | Special classes usually have the advantage of lower teacher-pupil ratios and it is therefore easier for teachers to organise activities in which the child 's level of participation in social and communicative activities can be carefully monitored and adapted to suit existing abilities . |
| 25 | It is therefore easier for an expatriate to leave items of furniture in storage at home than ship them here . |
| 26 | Horses learn new things easily when they are young ; it is actually easier for them to learn new things than it is for older horses . |
| 27 | Moreover , the presence of noise considerably smooths the nature of the optimal strategy of the long lived agent , because it is now harder for agents to completely signal their types . |
| 28 | It is perhaps better for my soul that I have been , instead , undistinguished and obscure . |
| 29 | In many instances it is perhaps better for the client to also send a letter ( copied to us ) to his other professional advisers informing them of our role and thereby introducing us . |
| 30 | So , it is far safer for the child in your car if , even though the law does not require it , rear seat belts or restraints are specially installed into cars where they have not been automatically fitted from new . |