Example sentences of "that it [be] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What The Mock Turtles do is so embarrassingly simple that it 's easy to trip yourself up describing it — they make pop records , in the same way that The Beatles , The Byrds , The Kinds and Syd 's Pink Floyd made pop records ; with the guitars well upstage and choruses forged in heaven . |
| 2 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 3 | You see , all the things which at the moment seem strange to you about it become every day normality after a bit , so that it 's untrue to give you an answer in terms of the lack of space or the lack of change or the lack of food or any of the other things which make this so different from ordinary life . ’ |
| 4 | And then the other day you were saying that it 's nice to have someone drop in |
| 5 | But she adds : ‘ As many people as have written saying we should revise them have written in to say that it 's outrageous to think we should even consider revising them … |
| 6 | Chair , I want to say , it , it is a success , and er , that it 's important to show you how diversion can work . |
| 7 | This is a big order — so big that it 's safe to say we only partially achieve this in ourselves , to say nothing of our children . |
| 8 | Although there 's some dispute about when they were last heard everyone 's agreed that it 's wonderful to hear them again . |
| 9 | HOLIDAY MONEY There are now so many ways holidaymakers can take money abroad that it 's hard to decide which is best |
| 10 | Wright confessed : ‘ When the ball goes in like that it 's hard to contain yourself . |
| 11 | How can he convince his wife that it 's wrong to spank her boys ? |
| 12 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not say precisely how long the blade was , but I think you will agree that it is legitimate to deduce its length , from a progressive diminution in the width of the wound . |
| 14 | In addition , to argue with able , patriotic , experienced men is tiring and some ministers have found that it is best to conserve their energies for major issues . |
| 15 | In the belief that it is better to abuse himself than others , he gets his kicks from watching his own videotaped interviews with women about their sexual preferences . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind that it is essential to include your own product somewhere in the prize structure , consider the size of the top prize vis-a-vis the second tier of prizes , whether there should be more than two tiers of prizes or whether there should be , say , 50 or 100 prizes of equal weight . |
| 17 | With such charm and grace does he distribute his roses among them that it is easy to forgive him for having — alas ! — one rose too few . |
| 18 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 19 | That a policy may meet the ideal of justice does not necessarily always mean that it is right to adopt it , if in so doing other fundamental values are sacrificed . |
| 20 | In Ex. 17 ( a ) and ( b ) the layout is so obvious that it is unnecessary to print them in score . |
| 21 | Indeed , in the absence of a codified constitution , it is arguable that it is impossible to state what laws are of constitutional significance without reference to constitutions elsewhere to see what kinds of matters are dealt with therein . |
| 22 | So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 . |
| 23 | He points out that it is impossible to stop it completely : ‘ There is no way to protect the electronic pulse . |
| 24 | In addition , some of the countries whose boundaries have remained relatively stable produce such a wide variety of items , stemming from the diverse cultural , religious and ethnic backgrounds of their people , that it is impossible to categorize their rugs under one homogeneous style . |
| 25 | Although throughout Marx 's and Engels 's work reference to property is so extensive that it is impossible to take them all into account , a general pattern emerges . |
| 26 | Standards such as those on depreciation and current cost accounting are so different from current practice that it is impossible to rationalize them . |
| 27 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 28 | This aspect of Relativity is difficult fully to understand , but in simplest terms we can say that it is impossible to consider whatever is happening at this moment on & alpha Centauri , about 4.5 lightyears away , as sharing a ‘ now ’ with whatever is happening here . |
| 29 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 30 | These assert that , under perfect competition , market forces will cause resources to be used in such a way that it is impossible to make somebody better off without making somebody else worse off — in this sense , perfect competition avoids waste . |