Example sentences of "effective [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patching is more effective if done in the pre-school years . |
| 2 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
| 3 | The 2nd cellos here play in unison with the double basses for the first six bars , and after that in the octave above , the double basses being more effective if kept in the lower octave . |
| 4 | It must be stressed that an exercise , such as the one mentioned is fundamental to the effective use of nursing manpower for it provides the foundation for subsequent decisions which may be less effective if handicapped from the outset . |
| 5 | If it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and it is entitled in respect of its individual accounts to the exceptions conferred on a small company by section 246 ( or would be so entitled but for being a member of an ineligible group ) and it is not required to prepare group accounts for that year , the resolution is effective if passed at a general meeting at which the accounts for that year are to be laid . |
| 6 | If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid . |
| 7 | North Korea had also signed long-delayed nuclear inspection accords with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) at the end of January , but had stated that these would not become effective until ratified by the Supreme People 's Assembly — the country 's legislature — which was unlikely to occur before April . |
| 8 | Under Japanese law , a Diet member 's signature did not become effective until endorsed by the Diet as a whole , however , and on this occasion House Speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi ruled that the resignations would not be considered until the political situation had " normalized " . |
| 9 | The Italian air force was also particularly active and effective until reduced by the RAF . |
| 10 | If they are made more onerous an affirmative resolution of each House of Parliament is needed : if not , they are effective unless annulled by a resolution of either House . |
| 11 | It is concluded that oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation confers no benefit over endoscopic sclerotherapy in terms of long term survival and that it is not cost effective as judged by the current health care costs in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | The general experience is that they are likely to prove most effective when applied on an area-wide basis , and with the additional objective of improving the quality of the environment . ’ |
| 13 | Even though essential oils are sometimes given orally ( especially in the case of garlic ) they can often be even more effective when applied to the skin . |
| 14 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 15 | On the record this was played using fingerstyle acoustic guitar , but it is equally effective when played in the same manner on an electric guitar . |
| 16 | We and others have proposed that cytokines should be most effective when immobilized on the luminal surface of the endothelium , otherwise blood flow would prevent accumulation of effective local concentrations . |
| 17 | These are much more effective when coupled with a thorough removal of acid organic detritus from the substrate . |
| 18 | By means of technical methods known as single , double , and triple tonguing extremely rapid but clear staccato production is obtainable , which is most sure and effective when used for the rapid reiteration of a single note , e.g. : |
| 19 | In winter months P17 is very effective when used as a wrap around delicate shrubs or containerised plants which have to be over-wintered outside . |
| 20 | However , they are just as effective when worked in the same yarn as is usual for Aran garments . |