Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | He would then turn down the fell and begin to race , faster as it grew steeper , more furiously as the half-ton of slate threatened to catch him up and ( as happened regularly ) crush against him , until , blown with exhaustion , he reached the unloading bays at the foot of the fell . |
2 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
3 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
4 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
5 | ‘ It 's going to get worse before it gets better . |
6 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
7 | Bearing in mind that canoeing is gaining in popularity , along with the leisure industry , the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
8 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
9 | The National Rivers Authority says the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
10 | But the warning tonight is that , with more severe weather forecast , it 'll get worse before it gets better . |
11 | But with no sign of a slowdown in the housing crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’ |
12 | But with no sign of a slowdown in the crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’ |
13 | But now motoring organizations are warning that the congestion and traffic chaos will get much worse before it gets better . |
14 | On the other hand , this degradation of the bench must be a slow process , so that the rate of cutting of a marine bench may be expected to become slower as it becomes wider . |
15 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
16 | Thus , despite the difficulty of feeding a larger body , the survival value of size becomes greater as it gets colder . |