Example sentences of "[subord] it is [adv] [adj -er] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others .
2 On a system like the ZX Spectrum where it is often easier to draw in black and white before adding the colours this in an essential facility .
3 Although it is plainly easier to examine the narrower conception of the media 's political impact by exploring specific case studies , long-term and fundamental changes in the public 's perceptions of the political world must not be overlooked .
4 The origin of such cusps is obscure ( see Komar ( 1976 ) for summary of theories ) , although it is much easier to see why , once formed , they will be maintained .
5 The dunnock probably has no conscious awareness of its long-term best interests , so it is even easier to understand that its nervous system might find certain kinds of stimulation irresistible .
6 Accurate scaling is difficult for bitmapped graphics , especially scaling up , so it is often better to use a object-based drawing program like MacDraw or MacDraft .
7 The frequency of coligation events during the cloning procedure is also important because it is much easier to interpret the results of hybridisations on unfragmented clones .
8 Note that this chart is slightly different from that used for chariots because it is much harder to hit the crew or warhorses on a War Wagon because of the size of the tower .
9 Division : You can use a similar method for dividing by 50 because it is always easier to work with the number two .
10 This raises another difficulty for the historian , because it is far harder to estimate the extent to which a village had shrunk or when this occurred than to note when it was finally deserted .
11 It makes good business sense in another way too — because it is now cheaper to make plants that fit the pesticide than to adapt the pesticide to fit the plants .
12 While it is always easier to offer observations in hindsight , in many ways the results of the two Old Master pictures sales in London were predictable before they took place .
13 Overall what stands out from intercity comparisons such as these is that firstly , London 's difficulties are echoed elsewhere , which is comforting since it is generally easier to put up with a problem if you know that others share it .
14 This consists of analysing the coins into groups or categories of similar coins , since it is always easier to situate a large group in place and time and then bring greater precision to an individual object forming part of that group .
15 Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed .
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