Example sentences of "it [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 2 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 3 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
| 4 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 5 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 6 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 7 | Bimbo , his last novel , was a cleverly sustained pastiche of tabloid culture , and the author 's veiled compassion for the eponymous narrator made it all the sharper . |
| 8 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He 'd do it all the more would he ? |
| 10 | He 'd do it all the more . |
| 11 | If he chucks something on the ground he 'll pick it up and give it to me and he 'll do it all the more . |
| 12 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 13 | A little contempt for military life makes it all the easier … |
| 14 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 15 | It makes it all the sweeter when they fall . |
| 16 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 17 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 18 | It must make it all the harder that this reception has availed so little in the result … still this is n't the end of everything . |
| 19 | In fact probably you 'd move more cos he says yo your instinct is take your feet off I think your instinct would be to jump on it all the harder . |
| 20 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 21 | Is it only the additional or marginal cost to the employer providing the service for the employee , or is it a proportionate part of the total costs incurred by the employer in providing the facility to be used both by the public and by the employee ? |
| 22 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 23 | The Tsar rejected the Duma 's demands and permitted it only the briefest of sessions . |
| 24 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
| 25 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 26 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah I know , you know , there 'll be two pound postage on it you can guarantee on it so the crafty devils they are |
| 28 | Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube . |
| 29 | As a matter of interest on the raffle side , David , is it basically the two pound fifty person that buys the majority of the raffle tickets ? |
| 30 | .. ’ Nor is it merely the heavy stuff which comes with serious credentials . |