Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is somewhat like making the target broader so that it becomes easier to hit . |
| 2 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 3 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 4 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 5 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 6 | And you 're sat there and you 're like kicking it away and it goes worse . |
| 7 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 8 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 9 | If you can find some moss and dig it up and it lasts longer . |
| 10 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 11 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 12 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 13 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 14 | Until quite recently , meat from lambs under two years old was considered pale and tasteless so mutton ( a darker meat ) was preferred , even though it required slower cooking . |
| 15 | Such an animal , born white as usual , darkens dramatically as it grows older . |
| 16 | went up there first and then so it got better and so it got better and , and Will was marvellous |
| 17 | APT is impressive , not least because it comes nearer than any rival to retaining essential qualities of open outcry , a feat unmatched by American exchanges which profess the greatest attachment to traditional trading . |
| 18 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |