Example sentences of "it [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better . |
| 2 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 3 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 4 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 5 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 6 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 7 | I think the more people you talk about it to about it the better , especially people who are in it , |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 9 | The less official he could make it the better . |
| 10 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 11 | what , what you need to do , and the sooner you do it the better , the sooner you can get the information the better , is to set out those sort of philosophical issues |
| 12 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 13 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 14 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 15 | But the longer you leave it the worse your chances are going to get . |
| 16 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 17 | I I mean poor Wynn I have n't , have n't been in touch with them for weeks and months and the longer you leave it the worse you feel about it , you know ? |
| 18 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 19 | Well the longer I leave it the worse it 'll get . |
| 20 | Is n't there an argument which says if you 're trying to protect York and its setting that the further you actually move the development away from it the greater the protection you afford it ? |
| 21 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 22 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 23 | But our , ours builds up , it starts soft , and then gets louder , and the longer you leave it the louder and louder it gets ! |
| 24 | So I believe in coddling my memory , just slipping it the finer morsels of experience . |
| 25 | One further thing that will help you to be a successful prescriber ; the more you enjoy it the easier it will be . |
| 26 | At the price it is , the sooner I can find a buyer for it the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 28 | Twentieth-century developments in communications — be it the faster postal service , the telephone , telegrams or improved road conditions and means of transport — would enable far-flung relations to keep in touch with each other with an ease at which their ancestors might have marvelled . |
| 29 | ‘ Let it work its way through him , ’ said Ellen to Brenda , ‘ let it work its way through and out ; the harder I put it the faster it will happen . ’ |
| 30 | Helen postponed telephoning , as one might hoard some delicacy , to savour it the longer in anticipation . |