Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 2 | When restrictions on bank credit were relaxed , companies found it more advantageous to lend and borrow through banks , particularly as when they dealt directly transactions were unsecured . |
| 3 | In power , they found it legally difficult to identify and expel illegal immigrants , so many now think the ULFA has the more effective solution . |
| 4 | However , the real triumph was the fact that the user interface was matched to the traditional ways of working — which made it both easy to learn and rapidly accepted ( though much criticised for its lack of typographic accuracy ) by the publishing industry . |
| 5 | The restructure of the coal , aggregates , Speedlink , petroleum and metals businesses made it relatively easy to identify and organise separate sub-sector fleets , increasingly recognised by the new grey livery decorated with esoteric fleet symbols and depot badges . |
| 6 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 7 | In contrast to the other states though , Germany was still a series of small states and principalities , and this made it very difficult to finance and develop the railway network . |