Example sentences of "it [verb] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Did it make it worse when you knew the victim ? |
2 | Why does it make it worse ? |
3 | It does not make life easy for George Bush , but neither does it make it easier for Congress . |
4 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
5 | In a way it made it worse . |
6 | It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering . |
7 | It made it cloudier than ever where you are concerned . |
8 | We broke into the single , locked cupboard , and although we only found some new clothes and shoes with jewellery stuffed up inside the toes we assured each other that Aisha received money from her lover and liked leaving me in the house with the children because it made it easier to cheat on her husband . |
9 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
10 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
11 | It made it easier for workers to appreciate the potential power of strike action : statistics confirm that the larger the plant the greater was the propensity to strike . |
12 | ‘ I did n't like the situation and when Hibs came in for me , it made it easier to move . |
13 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
14 | Arthur Sando from Swindon lent a hand with the rescue , then helped to flag down traffic to prevent it making it worse . |
15 | I think that all that this policy does is make that more explicit , it gives it greater clarity . |
16 | ‘ Perhaps it makes it worse . |
17 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
18 | it 's no use going up to look at four walls , it makes it worse , again . |
19 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
20 | ‘ It makes it better for you if you do , but it probably does n't matter to the film , ’ he says . |
21 | In talking to ordinary policewomen , we found many themselves adopt notions of gender differences in order to explain the marginalization of their duties , although others prefer this kind of work simply because it makes it easier to manage their difficult and conflicting roles as policewoman , wife , and mother . |
22 | The other is that it makes it easier to encourage prickly China and France to join in . |
23 | I 'll give you another paragraph , It makes it easier to read . |
24 | Regulators like these restrictions because it makes it easier to monitor the risks banks are taking ; bankers object to the extra cost . |
25 | Our study of exotic tribal religions , however , enables us to come to terms with this tantalizing problem at a safe distance ; indirectly it makes it easier to realize that it is not the presence of such beliefs that is odd or unusual but their absence . |
26 | It makes it easier for it to fall out , when a woman is pregnant , in the last few months of pregnancy she produces lots of hormones which relax the muscles in her body do n't they ? |
27 | So er It makes it easier to find the saucer if it 's raised . |
28 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
29 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word-processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
30 | It makes it easier for businesses to management their expenses , whereas cash is often difficult to account for . |