Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by being ashamed of who they are , they 're making it harder for other people to accept them . ’ |
| 2 | You 're making it easier for them because you want to believe what they 're saying . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're making it easier for the Oaks , ’ whispered Floy . |
| 4 | In another way , however , I 'm finding it easier to cope with because there is so much to see and do here . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'm finding it harder and harder . ’ |
| 6 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in the last recession under this Government the collapse of manufacturing industry was said to be making it leaner and fitter to face the future ? |
| 7 | A firm which innocently seeks to lower costs and improve product quality may simultaneously be making it harder for entry to occur . |
| 8 | If you ca n't remove the stain yourself , at least you will possibly be making it easier for the professionals to get it out later . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm making it easier for the next black man . |
| 10 | One campaigner commented : ‘ Labour are making it easier for the Tories to shift the debate before the next election . ’ |
| 11 | Some are finding it easier to talk about their past as each weekly get together follows the last . |
| 12 | Melinda , who run the kitchen and bathroom design company Just So Design with her partner , is one of a growing number of people who are finding it easier , and more profitable , to manage their business from home . |
| 13 | ‘ We are winning in the sense we are finding it easier for women to make progress in the organisation and they are not the exception any more . |
| 14 | Now budget-holding GPs are finding it quicker and far cheaper to do the job themselves . |
| 15 | I remember when I worked at Ollerton colliery in the constituency of the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) that the management had to use haulage bogeys to take fresh water to the miners , who were drinking it faster than it could be ferried to them . |
| 16 | One year later there was some indication that the control sample carers were finding it harder than the action sample to talk in terms of a simple preference for home care . |
| 17 | On a more pragmatic , but related , issue , students were finding it harder to ‘ pass ’ inference skills IN 1–3 , than IN 4–6 , and since this had important implications for their grading , I was attempting to remediate the early skills on an ad hoc basis with some non-subject-specific pencil and paper exercises . |
| 18 | The Society of Practitioners of Insolvency 's technical director , Gerry Weiss , said that recent cases were making it easier for administrators to obtain and exchange information . |
| 19 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 20 | Yeah but it 's still making me confused I 'm thinking about too much at once it 's making it worse . |
| 21 | Quite honestly , ’ Laura added , ‘ I think she 's finding it easier , somehow , to concentrate on getting well — as quickly as possible — without having to worry too much about Emma and Sophie . |
| 22 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |
| 23 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 24 | She was finding it harder and harder to keep up with her mother 's thoughts . |
| 25 | She was making it worse for herself but could n't help it . |
| 26 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 27 | Thus his conduct very well illustrates the maxim ‘ Look before you leap ’ ; and if his final decision was made when the trend of circumstances was making it harder to leave home , he might well have recalled ‘ He who hesitates is lost ’ . |