Example sentences of "[adj -er] and [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Some may find it easier and quicker to give out a simple number rather than spend time asking about diet and so on . ’ |
| 3 | The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer . |
| 4 | However , it 's much quicker and easier to use an all-in-one paint like Hammerite which you brush on straight over the rust . |
| 5 | A staple gun is often quicker and safer to use than a hammer and nails . |
| 6 | The bigger the lens , the brighter the image — but there must be a compromise because bigger binoculars are also heavier and harder to hold steady . |
| 7 | Lens designs can improve the cosmetic effect of your glasses , making them thinner , lighter , clearer and easier to clean . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry said : ‘ The changes are generally to make the advertisements clearer and easier to understand . |
| 9 | It is much cheaper and easier to treat residents as passive and incapable . |
| 10 | In a rip-and-tear piece , the newsletter dismisses as canards all the fondly held notions about RISC and makes an item-by-item case that RISC as faster , cheaper and easier to design is all illusion . |
| 11 | ‘ The advantage of having your own premastering system is that it 's much cheaper and easier to correct mistakes at the early stage , ’ explains Mr Wakeley . |
| 12 | Small-scale hydroelectric power , which has mostly already been exploited in Sweden , and biomass are both cheaper and quicker to implement than fossil fuels in India . |
| 13 | Would not it be safer , cheaper and quicker to reinstate the conventional junction lay-out at that and other accident sites ? |
| 14 | And it would be both cheaper and safer to let secondary pupils play with polyethylene , polypropylene and PET , rather than sodium ; they can worry about the formula and synthesis of these materials later . |
| 15 | Doctors are all very well , but mountain climbing doctors are all bonkers in my experience , mutant crosses between James Robertson Justice , Rab C Nesbitt and Evel Knievel , eternally setting up drips the better and faster to imbibe Old Scrotum 's Real Brain Shrinking Liver Ale . |
| 16 | Babies of mothers who smoke in pregnancy are often small , weaker and slower to develop than other babies . |
| 17 | A faster and easier to use version of Timeworks Publisher for Windows has been unveiled by Huntingdon-based GST Software . |
| 18 | Human affairs , and especially matters involving learning , are on the whole a lot neater and easier to understand on paper than they are in reality . |
| 19 | In windy weather every effort should be made to avoid having to move the glider upwind ; it is far safer and easier to land well into the field and then to move the glider back down wind . |
| 20 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 21 | Their home is a country retreat which Julie finds harder and harder to leave . |
| 22 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 23 | She was finding it harder and harder to keep up with her mother 's thoughts . |
| 24 | The material used is cheaper , lighter , thinner and easier to lay . |
| 25 | In most circumstances , inkjets produce results close in quality to lasers , yet they 're much cheaper , smaller , quieter and easier to maintain . |