Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHEAPER He found it cheaper than expected to get started because groundworks and services cost less than forecast . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We found it safer to hold on with two hands then . |
| 4 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 5 | I also found it quieter than my car and more manageable . |
| 6 | Progress was so slow that many found it quicker to abandon their carriages and continue on foot . |
| 7 | I think subsequently she found it harder to deal with . ’ |
| 8 | When Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977 , Zahedi found it harder to be close to senior officials . |
| 9 | er well I found it harder to do it |
| 10 | I forgot the note on the hall table and he found it later , came to me distressed . |
| 11 | This gave them a cushion of safety but often meant that the opposition found it easier to make space in midfield . |
| 12 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 13 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In some cases the development officer found it easier to substitute support workers for a home help . |
| 19 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 20 | I found it easier to systematise my trial-and-error searching by restricting the possible moves , thus reducing a wider problem to a subproblem . |
| 21 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 22 | He actually found it easier to walk backwards . |
| 23 | Successive chancellors found it easier to borrow the ready-made currency in the possession of the Gens Redburna in return for Imperial Notes of Hand ; interest was paid on the loans . |
| 24 | The student found it easier to curb his own aggressive feelings to John when he defined John 's anger as a partial manifestation of anxiety . |
| 25 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 26 | It was all quite dispiriting and I subsequently found it easier to work with museum officials . |
| 27 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 28 | Children found it easier to communicate than their parents , but were primarily concerned about learning more about the seizures . |
| 29 | It is difficult to escape the conclusion , however , that hard-headed Protestants found it easier to attack what they did not like in magic without compromising their religion . |
| 30 | It was quieter there than elsewhere , and he found it easier to sleep . |