Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach is helpful if you have a tendency to compete with others and view them as a threat ; it encourages greater understanding between people and appeals to shared aspirations . |
| 2 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 3 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 4 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 5 | It receives further consideration in the next chapter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It recommended better training and status for youth leaders , a building programme of new premises and facilities , and the setting up of a Youth Service Development Council . |
| 8 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 9 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |
| 10 | It offers further confirmation for GR outside the solar system and it provides the first evidence , albeit indirect , for gravitational radiation . |
| 11 | As a particular strength , it offers broader coverage of specialist vocabulary — from medicine to computers , journalism to aerospace — than any other advanced learner 's dictionary . |
| 12 | And it made better grass . |
| 13 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 14 | When ingested ( as tablets or as fluoridated water ) , it builds stronger enamel and heals small spots of decay before they develop into holes . |
| 15 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 16 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
| 17 | Like similar assumptions about fresh air and freedom it needs further investigation , otherwise we shall measure its extent rather than its quality , its coverage rather than its benefits . |
| 18 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 19 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |
| 20 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 21 | ‘ It has better quality people , its productivity has never been so great and yet it is still somewhat traditional in format and operation . |
| 22 | It has greater power in certain areas than the House of Representatives , for example the Senate can vet all major presidential appointments to the executive and the judiciary and must concur in any treaties negotiated by the President . |
| 23 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |
| 24 | It has faster search times than the simple linked list , but greater memory overheads because each node has two pointers . |
| 25 | It contains further reading , writing and listening exercises . |
| 26 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 27 | More controversially , it proposed greater flexibility in the allocation of Ministry grant-aid to Responsible Bodies . |
| 28 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 29 | As allopurinol did not inhibit the growth of L. casei nor interfere with the growth of experimental tumours , nor did it appear to have any other properties which made it unsuitable , it received further investigation in man . |
| 30 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |