Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] it [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |
| 2 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 3 | Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers . |
| 4 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 5 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 6 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 7 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |