Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rasbora caudimaculata the Red Scissortail can be a trickly fish to acclimatise to aquarium life , but once well established it rarely gives further problems . |
| 2 | There is nothing exceptional in this : it merely reinforces earlier Library Association statements on the responsibilities of the professional librarian with regard to censorship . |
| 3 | Since a good deal of writing is context-establishing in this way , it generally reveals higher levels of lexical density than does , for example , spoken conversation , which tends to be context-identifying , concerned with giving the sharper indexical focus to shared lexical information which form-words can provide . |
| 4 | It thus provides lower cost loans by operating with narrower interest rate margins than those of domestic banking operations . |
| 5 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 6 | IT also allows greater devolution of decision-making to the lowest practical level and allows operational staff to take responsibility for ever-widening aspects of their total work : accessing information , planning , budgeting , delivery and quality control . |
| 7 | It also enables older people to challenge what is done for them , and to make provision more in line with their real needs . |
| 8 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 9 | However , Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that LOR ‘ works ’ to the extent that it also indicates greater interaction with the community . |
| 10 | Not only does it avoid the need for each service to ‘ re-invent the wheel ’ by working in isolation , it also forges closer links — invaluable at a time when the world is becoming smaller and ‘ international standards ’ loom . |
| 11 | It also gives higher workrates ( Table 2 ) and lower power requirements and fuel use . |
| 12 | The use of ozone as a reactant in absorption systems is relatively new but one increasing in popularity as it reportedly requires lower dose rates and reaction times , is less susceptible to changes in water temperature and acidity or alkalinity and produces no harmful by-products . |
| 13 | In this sense writing is not necessarily ‘ better ’ or ‘ worse ’ than speech , it simply involves further variations in the relationship of structure to meaning . |
| 14 | Even at the same time as it publicly commends higher education , seeking out the graduate entrant , spending large sums on publicity to this end , and funding access to degree courses on scholarships , it also holds to a central ethic of distrust of the academic . |
| 15 | It certainly merits further examination . |