Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new model joins the previously-announced 16-port model , although it has an earlier availability date : the company is aiming for late this quarter for the eight-port model , while the 16-port version is not expected until the third quarter . |
| 2 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 3 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 4 | Therefore V c falls until it reaches the lower logic 0 threshold ( V- ) , upon which the output once more goes high and the cycle repeats . |
| 5 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 6 | Those who advocate an expansionist policy believe that a 6% base rate is the minimum necessary to get the economy out of the recession , even if it involves a further decline in sterling . |
| 7 | Er ye yes , if it gives a better service at the end of the day |
| 8 | ‘ Overkill ’ causes unnecessary suffering to the offender , and all suffering is bad unless it prevents a greater amount of suffering or brings about a greater quantity of pleasure . |
| 9 | Both Roche and Berk are companies of repute , and I do not think that Berk would like to be described by Dalyell as ‘ fly by night ’ simply because it produces a cheaper product . |
| 10 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 11 | Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy . |
| 12 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 13 | Incidentally , the round African hut is highly appropriate for keeping cool in hot sun because it presents a smaller surface area than a square building would . |
| 14 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 15 | They say that 20 per cent of American motorists who can run cars on unleaded petrol are switching back to lead because it gives a better performance . |
| 16 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 17 | Fishermen fish yellowfin rather than skipjack or albacore tuna because it commands a higher price — its flesh is white , while skipjack and albacore are a darker , red colour . |
| 18 | Pressure groups in industries that produce selected goods ( like good X ) have a reason to push for such selective subsidy because it implies a higher demand for their output . |
| 19 | The snag with multimode fibre is that , because it carries a wider beam of light , it suffers more from spurious internal reflections . |
| 20 | It was difficult to calculate Hewlett-Packard Co 's margins , he said , because it has a wider-ranging business . |
| 21 | Some firms like BP try to use as much North Sea crude as possible , because it has a lower sulphur content than Arabian Gulf oil . |
| 22 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 23 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 24 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 25 | In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England . |
| 26 | In his excitement Yanto soaked himself in his effort to grab the fish before it found a deeper refuge . |
| 27 | Though it packed a stronger punch in the north-eastern states , it wreaked greater havoc in the south . |
| 28 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |
| 29 | A longer time period is probably advantageous to the acquirer as it enables a better assessment of assets to be made and gives time for undisclosed liabilities to appear . |
| 30 | British radio works far closer to the texture of ordinary life than that , engaging as it does a deeper sympathy for a shared world of ordinary experience and a total lack of awe . |