Example sentences of "cheap and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Printed material , in all its diversity of forms , is one of the cheapest and most effective methods for individual instruction about the various aspects of computerized information retrieval . |
| 2 | If you have trees or fences around the pool , the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be heavy-gauge fishing line stretched about seven feet above the pool . |
| 3 | However , the cheapest and most useful solvent for laboratory use is commercial grade acetone . |
| 4 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 5 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 6 | The cheapest and most readily-available output device is the printer . |
| 7 | Prior to the introduction of these purpose-built auditory churches , existing Gothic church interiors were adapted for Protestant use by the cheapest and most convenient means possible . |
| 8 | The most important crop is grass : it is also by far the cheapest and least laborious to grow and feed . |
| 9 | Their tests were cheaper and apparently fairer than local ‘ home-made ’ ones and they conveniently transferred the odium that selection incurred on to a distant , impartial public body . |
| 10 | Tin plate is cheaper and quite durable , but keeping tin rust-free does pose problems . |
| 11 | Whether you 're shopping , going to work or travelling for pleasure , it 's a lot cheaper and much healthier ! |
| 12 | Other initiatives , such as skill-sharing and studio-sharing , forming a group or association , or joining an arts guild , can help reduce some of the financial overheads or create cheaper and often better ways of exhibiting work . |
| 13 | Independents ' parts are significantly cheaper and sometimes less than half the cost of the equivalent parts made by the manufacturers . |
| 14 | A recent land survey of Boiotia reveals a much higher density of settlement and population than had previously been suspected , cp. below p. 84 for this ; why not help ourselves , the Athenians must have said , to some of that good soil — cheaper and less dangerous than planting colonies in Thrace where they might be and sometimes were overwhelmed by the natives . |
| 15 | Moreover many firms will use relocation as an opportunity to shed jobs or introduce cheaper and less worthwhile ones . |
| 16 | But Dr Alan Long , an organic chemist who is research officer of the Vegetarian Society , said : ‘ Sulphadimidine fed to pigs is made to a cheaper and less pure commerical grade , which is not identical to the human drug . ’ |
| 17 | As described in more detail in Chapters 5 and 6 , the latter results from the growth in employment in public-sector services in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less unionized labour such as married women ( Fothergill and Gudgin , 1982 ; Massey , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Currently companies must install state-of-the-art controls on new plant whose emissions pose a threat to air quality in unpolluted areas , but the proposed changes would permit cheaper and less effective devices . |
| 19 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 20 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 21 | This might mean that a firm was ‘ released ’ from ties to traditional , skilled ( and often well-unionized ) labour ; the technical change freed it to seek out cheaper and less well-organized labour elsewhere . |
| 22 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 23 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 24 | Most people concluded that ‘ face-to-face ’ was more pleasurable , but e-mail was cheaper and more efficient . |
| 25 | Most concluded that 'face-to-face ’ was more pleasurable , but e-mail was cheaper and more efficient |
| 26 | Pressures from the consumer market to go for cheaper and more efficient plant ( which earlier , when there had been competition from generation by private industry , was a major spur to efficiency for CEB planners and the undertakings ) was now less effective . |
| 27 | The centre has an annual budget of £14 million and is pioneering research into a " topping cycle " which could produce a cheaper and more efficient way of burning coal in power stations . |
| 28 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 29 | Quite simply , computers are becoming cheaper and more powerful all the time . |
| 30 | ‘ It is our view that even when libraries do take training seriously , they all too often waste resources by selecting the wrong priorities in training e.g. by sending professional staff to expensive external courses , when an internal training programme might have been cheaper and more useful . ’ |