Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take a little practice , there may be a telephone box or a house or two to remove but it 's not as difficult as it sounds . |
| 2 | The disk in this family is delicate and prone to damage and it is common to find deep sea specimens without their disks . |
| 3 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 4 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 5 | Indication of perspective presents another convention in which one thing may not in reality be smaller than another but may be shown as such to indicate that it is further away from the viewer . |