Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature . |
| 2 | However , it was not at all convinced that a slight penetration with one finger could be regarded as an aggravated assault and yet considered it impractical to distinguish between different forms of digital penetration . |
| 3 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 4 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 5 | Yet these same people do not deem it improper to call on white people to get involved in other Black national , local or personal struggles , some of which reveal nasty aspects of oppression . |
| 6 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 7 | With this system , we have substantially reduced the capital cost compared with other processes and made it easy to integrate into existing equipment . |
| 8 | Looking over the abyss of infinite possibility , they find it easy to slip into endless striving and pursuit of whatever is , at that moment , desired . |
| 9 | Although these problems obviously exist , there are older mothers too who find it hard to cope with daily life . |
| 10 | He was very tired and found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time . |
| 11 | Whereas BA senior finds it hard to survive between annual meetings — and now has difficulty in attracting 1500 people to what should be an annual science feast — BAYS is a thriving operation , with branches all over the country . |
| 12 | It will also find it hard to break into western markets with products which have difficulty matching the quality of western goods . |
| 13 | At this stage of the argument , I find it helpful to turn to recent developments in Canada . |
| 14 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 15 | You could find it useful to comment on past reactions and to ask for a fresh angle : ‘ When we 've talked about having some staff working from home , we 've always got bogged down in cost factors regarding the technology needed . |
| 16 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 17 | Current budgeting arrangements have made it difficult to plan for systematic upgrading , replacement and improvement . |
| 18 | On the other hand , faculty heads were worried that a low curriculum development fund would make it difficult to cope with future changes , especially GCSE . |
| 19 | Maddox ( 1980 ) describes how love and anger , ghosts and grandparents , home and food , jealousy and authority can make it difficult to live with other people 's children . |
| 20 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 21 | Conversely they may find it difficult to adapt to poor lighting conditions , and they may be nervous when coming indoors after being in brighter light outside . |
| 22 | in this issue , identify a 1990 decision of the European Commission to permit a co-operation agreement on R&D , production , and marketing of electronic components for satellites , on the grounds that the companies otherwise would find it difficult to compete with non-European suppliers . |
| 23 | Nevertheless writers and reporters found it difficult to graduate beyond sociological observation . |
| 24 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 25 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |