Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 32 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 33 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 34 | We told the truth , the country deserved better than it got , and Labour would keep striving to create a country better in spirit and soul , he said , appealing for the party to retain in defeat the unity and vitality it showed in the campaign . |
| 35 | But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’ |
| 36 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 37 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 38 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 39 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 40 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 41 | ‘ The rose is for you , little maid , ’ he said , his voice husky , deeper than it had been before . |
| 42 | Drain the steak , reserving the marinade and thread a skewer through one strip of steak at 2.5cm/1in intervals , pushing the strip together so it forms concertina-like folds . |
| 43 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 44 | It is important to plan the evaluation process at the outset so that it relates to the stated objectives . |
| 45 | It means that you can spot irrelevancies and be better at controlling your behaviour so that it contributes to the achievement of your objective . |
| 46 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 47 | Would it be false if I could actually ‘ throw my voice ’ so that it seemed to come from somewhere else ? |
| 48 | The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow . |
| 49 | There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds . |
| 50 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 51 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 52 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 53 | Simply apply lateral cyclic and tail rotor commands to bank and turn the model so that it presents its side view to the direction of travel . |
| 54 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 55 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 56 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 57 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 58 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 59 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 60 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |