Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a report issued last year by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded that although it encouraged further research , there was no reason to link power cables with cancer . |
| 2 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 3 | Such an experience may encourage the doctor in question to attend a course in homoeopathy to see if it deserves further study . |
| 4 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 5 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 6 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 7 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 8 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 9 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 10 | I prefer white bread myself , because it makes better toast , but I always get a brown sliced for the cat which likes a little bit of butter with it . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not like the law change because it puts greater pressure on referees , who now have more power than ever . |
| 12 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 13 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 16 | If one had reason to contribute only a little to the scheme this might show that the scheme is unjustifiable since it requires greater sacrifice than can be justified . |
| 17 | Its distribution is certainly more restricted than the Moorhen 's , since it requires larger areas of water for breeding . |
| 18 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |
| 19 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 20 | The Middle East Economic Digest of March 16 described this prediction of a budget surplus as surprising to many observers , but noted that , in the absence of figures for years more recent than 1984 , it could not be determined whether it implied higher income or a sharp reduction in public expenditure . |
| 21 | The algorithm examines every shallow state , which can be constructed by a short path from start , before it examines deeper states . |
| 22 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A notice is preferable as it imposes greater protection than a caution ( which can be warned off ) but requires the consent of the landlord as the land certificate will need to be placed on deposit for the purpose of registration . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 27 | These other changes ( in levels of funding , the growing role of the Training Agency , and the enterprise culture as it affects higher education , for example ) will be incorporated into the discussion . |
| 28 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 29 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |