Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 2 | In such circumstances the pool should be placed in a more amenable situation and , by the careful dispersal of excavated soil made to appear that it is in fact lower than it really is . |
| 3 | For example , from the model derived above it is clear that output will be raised above its normal rate only if people in general are fooled into believing that the average price level is lower than it actually is . |
| 4 | Your head will get even bigger than it already is . ’ |
| 5 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 6 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 7 | That sounds a lot heavier than it really is , because what our testing has proved is that you are not psychotic in any orthodox way . |
| 8 | She nodded rapturously , and suddenly the night was beautiful and the moon shone brighter than it ever had before . |
| 9 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 10 | Spadefoot toads have a number of anti-predator tactics , one of which is to inflate the lungs and hence the body , which may fool the snake into thinking the toad is larger than it really is and act as a deterrent . |
| 11 | The smoke from the cottage chimney will lend a ‘ vapoury repose ’ and motion to the scene which a painter himself might strive in vain to capture , making the valley seem larger than it really is . |
| 12 | The two radical solutions were described in such extreme terms that the middle ground was made to seem huge and inviting , far larger than it actually was . |
| 13 | And Quality Street Egg verdict , the box makes the eggs appear much larger than it actually is cost , a hundred gram , ninety nine . |
| 14 | The movie progresses in nine yearly stages from 1981 through to 1989 , with AIDS gradually looming larger and larger until it finally seems to dominate everything else . |
| 15 | ‘ The orchestra is better than it ever was , ’ he enthused , ‘ and as always with the LPO they play slightly behind the beat , which is correct because if they played before it everybody would be lost . ’ |
| 16 | Working with the management now is a lot better than it ever has been . |
| 17 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 18 | It was better if it never had happened . ’ |
| 19 | That would have shown the object to be far older than it really was , if the dodge had not been detected . |
| 20 | Some of the dates that have been obtained are therefore misleading , making the sample appear younger or older than it really is . |
| 21 | Dominating the town as it does , the tower today has a gothic feel which makes it seem older than it really is . |
| 22 | Hugging the ground like a Lotus the Magister seems faster than it really is . |
| 23 | Do n't forget to use a sunscreen on overcast days — clouds or a breeze can fool you into thinking the sun is weaker than it really is . |
| 24 | If the economy is weaker than it now appears — because , as some economists suggest , the government 's data have been inflated by unseasonably warm weather in January and February — then shares could fall sharply to reflect continued declines in company earnings . |
| 25 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |
| 26 | Columbus knew that the world was round but he thought it was much smaller than it really is . |
| 27 | It feels compact and rather smaller than it actually is . |
| 28 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 29 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 30 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |