Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 2 | ROS : Yes , it 's lighter than it was . |
| 3 | So the box is lighter than it should be and the price the consumer pays is too low . |
| 4 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 5 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 6 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 7 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 8 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 9 | ‘ The air is 15 per cent cleaner than it was a decade ago . |
| 10 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 11 | Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances . |
| 12 | If the elderly relative is your own mother , frank discussion of problems is usually ( but not always ) easier than it is with an in-law . |
| 13 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 14 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 15 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 16 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 17 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 18 | Fortunately it 's easier than it looks , but still full Very Severe . |
| 19 | Putting on the roof was the most satisfying job : it is precision work which is easier than it looks — particularly with the plastic ridge fixings and verges . |
| 20 | MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks . |
| 21 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 22 | Pentos , he said on 31st December , was unlikely to find bookselling any easier than it was finding the difficult Athena and office furniture markets . |
| 23 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 26 | France is now facing its second period of cohabitation between a right-wing government and a socialist president , and if the statements of the conservative leaders are anything to go by , it is likely to be tougher than it was last time . |
| 27 | The difference is that , with the invention of new techniques , the gap between postulating an entity and identifying it physically is much shorter than it was in Mendel 's case . |
| 28 | The scale length is the Gibson-like 24¾″ , which actually feels a lot shorter than it is , introducing an almost short scale element into the Carlton story . |
| 29 | The building was 84 metres high , though because it was situated on a hill , with five storeys below ground , it looks shorter than it is . |
| 30 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |