Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 2 | But it 's , it 's like trying to climb a mountain , is n't it , in a sense , you , it 's getting steeper and steeper as you get to the peak , so it gets harder and harder to get that last little bit . |
| 3 | Right so it gets smaller . |
| 4 | The better you are the more you win , and , consequently , you face less pressure and so it becomes easier to win . |
| 5 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 6 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 7 | So it seemed better that you should go on thinking that I was just — ’ |
| 8 | you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it promises better information to guide patients , guidelines for clinical practice and wiser decisions by policy-makers and purchasers of health care . |
| 10 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 11 | Somehow it seemed easier to dress while Guy was absent . |
| 12 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 13 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 14 | Now it gets easier . |
| 15 | They still play honest hard rock , but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges . |
| 16 | Every time she went out she missed his pleading eyes and thumping tail ; but today it seemed worse than ever , somehow , to set forth quite alone . |
| 17 | Well it seems easier that way when you think about it dun n it ? |
| 18 | Well it looks better . |
| 19 | Well this I think 's Well it smells better than camomile tea . |
| 20 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 21 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 22 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 23 | ‘ But at the moment whenever I go back to Melbourne after being abroad it seems homelier every time . |
| 24 | But maybe it goes deeper than that . |
| 25 | Then it grew louder . |
| 26 | Then it became softer , and died away . |
| 27 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 28 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 29 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 30 | If the calcium concentration is increased during incubation of hippocampal slices , then it becomes easier to induce LTP , while if calcium is removed from the medium in which the slices are bathed , then LTP can not develop . |