Example sentences of "be [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
2 | You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The fashionable question ‘ How does the head office add value ? ’ would be clearer if it asked , ‘ When and why does a firmlet gain from being part of a company ? ’ |
5 | Unlike the rock pitch on the Wellenkuppe , the gendarme turned out to be steeper than it looked . |
6 | No I , I really , I 've got ta be very careful , that 'll be better cos it 's got the elastic , right we 'd better get on then had n't we ? |
7 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
8 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
9 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
10 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
11 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
12 | This may be faster but it leads to a kicking action that tends to collide with the opponent 's leading knee rather than pass over it . |
13 | For this reason the speed of the speech may be slower than it looks , the cigarette smoking being used to punctuate it . |
14 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
15 | Reviews from the West Yorkshire Playhouse where the show was first seen last year suggest that it might be funnier than it sounds . |
16 | This understanding from the ‘ Great Satan ’ will do the king little good at home , but his position may be stronger than it looks . |
17 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
18 | But at least that cloud means it 'll be milder than it 's been recently , with overnight temperatures up above freezing , about three degrees celsius , that 's thirty seven fahrenheit . |