Example sentences of "it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled it farther open and saw that a bunch of quill pens in an elastic band had been moved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) . |
| 4 | I think that Sir Ian has got it nearer right than popular belief . |
| 5 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 6 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 7 | Perhaps we should make it nearer . |
| 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 | So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers . |
| 10 | I 'll put it nearer to you and then you 'll be able to , it 's really a mummy job this I 'm afraid |
| 11 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 12 | For a while the increasing national cost of poor relief after mid century did not bring with it harsher attitudes . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | By saving more of the tooth , she leaves it healthier , and buys it time . |
| 15 | You may even find it simpler to revert to a one handed shot on these occasions . |
| 16 | But it continues to be developed , and each refinement makes it simpler and speedier . |
| 17 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 18 | In Britain Dr Richard Hughes introduced modifications into Hahnemann 's original teachings in order to popularize homoeopathy and to make it simpler to prescribe . |
| 19 | P-E International Plc has won the £150,000 contract to help the UK Inland Revenue with the implementation of the proposed reforms of personal tax assessment : in the budget , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced an overhaul of the tax return and payment process to make it simpler and fairer and offer the option of self-assessment and the revised system is scheduled to be in place by the 1996-7 tax year . |
| 20 | ‘ Yer ca n't 'ave it simpler than that , can yer ? ’ |
| 21 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |
| 22 | We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand . |
| 23 | And the other one is , now this is something I heard on erm , Radio F M yesterday , where apparently Richard Strauss was challenged about the complexity of r of a piece of work , and er , he responding by saying , the devil I can not make it simpler . |
| 24 | Make it simpler . |
| 25 | Make it simpler for the new babies coming in . |
| 26 | But travel trade groups and business analysts put it lower . |
| 27 | There was a wire mesh roof over it lower than in the Cages and some fish and meat . |
| 28 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |