Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
2 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
3 | During the last nine years , it has been richer pensioners who have been the main beneficiaries of the real increase in the value of pensions . |
4 | Today it has been worse and it is getting worse now . |
5 | In this year 's campaign , there have been heated discussions about the state of housing under the Labour council — but apart from that , Hamilton says it has been easier than expected . |
6 | It has been easier in the past to give in to the child 's demands , so learning to set limits across all aspects of the child 's behaviour can be critical for coping with the battles about food . |
7 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
8 | ‘ Now I 'm better known it has been easier to sell the show . ’ |
9 | Because we ca n't actually make it , because we 're going out somewhere else , but we would have done it , if it has been earlier . |
10 | We should remember that neither Marx nor Engels , his co-author , proposed a theory of crime ; and it has been later social theorists working within a Marxist framework who have developed a Marxist theory of crime . |
11 | because I think that the the normally he , he has it done are greater . |
12 | The company says system trails showed that 95 per cent of data messages were successfully transmitted which it reckons is better than the other means of mobile communication . |
13 | it look 's worse |
14 | it get 's , it get 's cooler at certain time of day and it heats up again |
15 | Would it have been better if , like other men , he had not told her ? |
16 | Would it have been better with another family on board ? |
17 | But would it have been better ? |
18 | Would it have been better had you gone to the other jobs ? |
19 | Yes I did know she was going to be in Caracas and No I did n't tell you and Yes that was wrong but would it have been better if I 'd told you ? |
20 | would n't it have been better if they 'd done it before |
21 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
22 | ‘ But , ’ I said , ‘ would n't it have been simpler just to have snapped its neck ? ’ |
23 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
24 | Would it have been easier if she had n't seen Lucy almost every day for four years going into or out of the office next door ? |
25 | What it means is higher bills for local taxpayers . |
26 | Last month 's record-breaking talks between OPEC members ( it was their longest meeting ) did not increase the amount of recoverable oil in the world , all it did was lower costs about $30 a barrel . |
27 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
28 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
29 | After all , it had been better . |
30 | find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank ! |