Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard a sound in the hall behind her and then Gordon was pulling at the hall door , opening it wider and shouting . |
| 2 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
| 3 | If this happens he will change the angle of climb automatically as the glider starts to gain height , and he will continue to pull it higher for a few seconds even if a power failure has occurred . |
| 4 | Lower a too-high ceiling by painting it darker . |
| 5 | Adolescents seem to find it harder , though , to relate to a step-father when they already have a good relationship with a non-custodial father . |
| 6 | With 12 wins — nine inside the distance — in 13 fights , Wharton is on the right course and Carr can be expected to find it tougher this time . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the English language seems to find it easier to talk of events rather than processes — and that is the way that we tend to talk . |
| 8 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 9 | He finds , not surprisingly , that the two based mainly on economic indicators tend to rank the United States very high ( first and second ) , while the other two , more widely based , classifications rank it lower ( sixth and twentyfourth ) . |
| 10 | CHEAPER He found it cheaper than expected to get started because groundworks and services cost less than forecast . |
| 11 | This picture of Dreadnought was so wide of the mark that Willis found it better to say nothing , simply making a gesture which had something in common with a petty officer 's salute . |
| 12 | We found it safer to hold on with two hands then . |
| 13 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 14 | I also found it quieter than my car and more manageable . |
| 15 | Progress was so slow that many found it quicker to abandon their carriages and continue on foot . |
| 16 | I think subsequently she found it harder to deal with . ’ |
| 17 | When Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977 , Zahedi found it harder to be close to senior officials . |
| 18 | er well I found it harder to do it |
| 19 | I forgot the note on the hall table and he found it later , came to me distressed . |
| 20 | This gave them a cushion of safety but often meant that the opposition found it easier to make space in midfield . |
| 21 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 22 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 23 | After four years of strife reconciliation of the PLO factions in Algiers in April 1987 was reflected on the ground , as the various groups found it easier to accept their differences and to agree on the importance of national unity . |
| 24 | Henry concentrated on Donald 's face and , as so often these days , found it easier to look as if he was listening by doing the reverse . |
| 25 | Many found it easier to recognise the sufferings of others — under Apartheid , in Vietnam , Nicaragua — before acknowledging their own — hopeless marriages , the aftermath of incest , the pain of family rejection , the struggle between conflicting cultures . |
| 26 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 27 | In some cases the development officer found it easier to substitute support workers for a home help . |
| 28 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 29 | I found it easier to systematise my trial-and-error searching by restricting the possible moves , thus reducing a wider problem to a subproblem . |
| 30 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |