Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has a shorter season this year , its last in the present theatre while work progresses on the new building to open in 1994 . |
| 32 | The best smoked salmon is definitely Scotch ; it has a pinker appearance than the inferior Canadian salmon . |
| 33 | Now , benefiting from £1.3 million in investment , it has a speedier service thanks to a modern radio signalling system and , from next month , new rolling stock . |
| 34 | Scholarship may come later to them , but when it comes , it has a surer foundation . |
| 35 | It has a deeper relief pattern , as has Anaglypta Dado , also designed to take more knocks and bumps in that vulnerable area below a dado rail . |
| 36 | It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures . |
| 37 | In his excitement Yanto soaked himself in his effort to grab the fish before it found a deeper refuge . |
| 38 | It contains a higher percentage of fibre than cabbage , for instance , and more than twice as much as apples on a weight-for-weight basis . |
| 39 | A horse 's sweat is hypertonic ie it contains a higher concentration of salts than the plasma from which it is derived . |
| 40 | It can be seen that human sweat is actually hypotonic ie it contains a lower salt concentration than the plasma . |
| 41 | In addition , though wheat and triticale both contain around 13 per cent protein , that of triticale is better quality as it contains a larger share of lysine , an amino-acid that is relatively deficient in most cereal proteins . |
| 42 | Well it 's not the grate , it 's the I think when we 've cemented it together it wants a bigger fireplace for that |
| 43 | It says it wants a fairer system of awarding contracts and also seeks to ensure that the taxpayer , via the Treasury , gets a proper return for the use of a scarce resource . |
| 44 | To this , however , it adds a further proposition . |
| 45 | It proposed a simpler statute abandoning many aspects of the previous draft , and it would be optional . |
| 46 | This is because the increased size and strength of the heart muscle enables it to pump a larger volume of blood into the arteries with each beat . |
| 47 | For example , how many members of the cancer patient 's family have the mutant gene , and do those who have it show a greater tendency to develop cancer ? |
| 48 | Although the map does not reveal how far away they are , and thus their three-dimensional layout , statistics derived from it show a higher degree of structure at large scales — supercluster size and upwards — than CDM would predict . |
| 49 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 50 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
| 51 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 52 | It seemed a better idea than sitting in the village street for three hours . |
| 53 | It seemed a better idea this time . |
| 54 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 55 | It seemed a longer walk than usual from the bedroom , along the passage , down the stairs and into the living room . |
| 56 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 57 | It was a mark of the respect Jimmy gained here that , when we ran an article about him in the Spring of 1977 in our Palace Programme , it evoked a larger response from our fans than any other in that series . |
| 58 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 59 | Indeed it raises a further problem by applying reasonable foresight to one element of the issue of remoteness of damage , that is , to the need for medical treatment . |
| 60 | For example , its Radar charts are suitable for displaying measurements involving angles — such as the response of an aerial — and it includes a wider range of fit types for plotting points or fitting trend lines than most spreadsheets and has options such as moving averages . |