Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 5 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 9 | you know , bits of this and bits of that but there again I think the family service ought to be a lot shorter than it is |
| 10 | The project pointed out that an audit is easier if it is carefully planned and responsibility for particular aspects is shared out . |
| 11 | For those who have read the book the game will be easier but it is not a necessity . |
| 12 | Peter which on a map looks quicker but it is n't cos it 's a winding |
| 13 | Lambda is considerably more luminous than Algol , but appears fainter because it is further away . |
| 14 | The position of those out of work in Britain then was much harsher than it is today . |
| 15 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 16 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 17 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 18 | In the mid-Pleistocene , between one and two million years ago , the sea level around South-East Asia was as much as 660 ft ( 200 m ) lower than it is today . |
| 19 | A mere 18,000 years ago , the sea was 280 ft ( 85 m ) lower than it is now . |
| 20 | I said , You see the point is that the temperature the temperature at the north pole is a lot lower than it is in th on the equator I said . |
| 21 | The proportion of female members of political parties and of local soviets in these republics is considerably lower than it is elsewhere in the former USSR ( although in 1988 , ironically , the first woman regional party first secretary for many years was appointed in Uzbekistan ) . |
| 22 | The chord would , however , probably ‘ sound lower than it is ’ owing to its deep and dense sonority , and the absence of the lower octave would thus hardly be felt . |
| 23 | But this full equilibrium position , at C , is inferior to the one at which inflation is zero and unemployment is equal to its natural rate , point B. This is clear from the fact that both have the same unemployment rate , but point C has a higher inflation rate ; it is also indicated by the fact that at point C the popularity of the government is lower than it is at point B. We therefore have the odd result that the position which is optimal , point B , is not feasible , whereas the position that is feasible is sub-optimal . |
| 24 | It 's er what this means it means is that the guaranteed price in this country is a lot lower than it is in other European countries . |
| 25 | Federal and Capital we er , is , is a small business er , but highly profitable and er , it 's a subscription business so that the cash comes in advance and er , the er , the only criticism I have of Federal and Capital is that it 's , it , it , it , it would be nice if it was five times bigger than it is . |
| 26 | a lot bigger than it is now |
| 27 | The hole in the side of my jeans is getting bigger so it is , have to sew it up . |
| 28 | This will sound ruder than it is : who do you think you are ? |
| 29 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 30 | stretched and paler as it is . |