Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | I want it bigger . |
| 3 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 4 | If you realise it later you will have to undo the edit |
| 5 | With your back straight , bottom muscles clenched and foot flexed , slowly lift your leg up behind you , ease it higher to the count of 16 , then repeat on the other leg . |
| 6 | But travel trade groups and business analysts put it lower . |
| 7 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 8 | OPEC 's overall average production in March had been 23,200,000 bpd , according to Subroto , although some industry estimates put it nearer 23,500,000 bpd . |
| 9 | Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) put it stronger when they said NAEP was so limited that it has ‘ virtually no capacity to provide the federal government , the lay public , or most educational policymakers with results that are directly useful for decision making ’ . |
| 10 | I put it stronger than that sometimes I say You know why worry about them ? |
| 11 | Dense materials conduct it better and faster . |
| 12 | pitch it higher and thinner till the kestrel treads air . |
| 13 | The advantages of the Lucas bus is that the rubber tyres give it better grip on steel and help to reduce shocks on the chassis . |
| 14 | But I certainly think that with regard to Concept Catering , the merger did not come s , could almost , did n't come soon enough , because we needed to turn Concept Catering , from a school meals organisation into a catering organisation , and give it stronger management and a better lead and a better appreciation of what it means to be customer oriented . |
| 15 | I like it better than the other tag . ’ |
| 16 | Britain after 1945 is full of people who live alone because they like it , or at least because they like it better than any of the available alternatives . |
| 17 | Rather over muscled , control it better yes . |
| 18 | Th'should know it better than me . ’ |
| 19 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
| 20 | cos they pledge to you that they get it cleaner than anything else |
| 21 | get it whiter than white |
| 22 | I 'd set it five or 10 beats lower till I could complete a 20–30 minute run without bleeping — then set it higher . ’ |
| 23 | It describes a process where national media find it cheaper and more advantageous to broadcast foreign/non-national material . |
| 24 | Besides , once they 've gone into mourning , they find it cheaper to stay that way . |
| 25 | ‘ Where will our exporters be if one day the foreign shipowners find it cheaper only to call in Rotterdam with just a few feeder services to this country ? ’ |
| 26 | On a smaller scale I often find it better to work on the floor . |
| 27 | it is possible to write large and use the camera to reduce the size , but I find it better to do all artwork at the finished size because thin lines tend to disappear on reduction . |
| 28 | On left- handers I find it better to get my head right down behind the fairing and maybe look back to see where the others are . ’ |
| 29 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 30 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |