Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Helen was buried there 76 years ago , but today the locals are afraid she is coming back to terrorise them . |
| 2 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 3 | Well , when it , when it is irrational it is operating either under the influence of the id or it 's overwhelmed by some external circumstances that it just ca n't understand the controls , therefore making all the wrong decisions and acting in a completely inadequate manner . |
| 4 | The intuitive explanation for this has already been discussed : the greater the proportion of the variance of the composite disturbance term which is due to the variance of the more sensible it is to attribute more of any period 's composite disturbance to . |
| 5 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 6 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 7 | No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being , fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation . |
| 8 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 9 | First , it means that there must be some form of cost/benefit analysis , however distasteful it is to assign money values to life or ill-health . |
| 10 | How clever he is to know where we should find him . ’ |
| 11 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 12 | You can imagine what loud sneezes did to Dawn 's nervous system and how dangerous it is to have a playful two-year-old near a very jumpy bird of prey ! |
| 13 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 14 | This shows how crucial it is to have funds available to support action when required from our Campaign Fund . |
| 15 | We have already touched on the importance of user interfaces ( see 1.4 ) and have emphasised how crucial it is to provide lay users of multimedia systems with interfaces that offer extreme friendliness without sacrificing power for simplicity . |
| 16 | This sample illustrates how easy it is to create abstract patterns from familiar objects by using the various options available . |
| 17 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 18 | And , it just shows you how easy it is to leave signs for the thief to tell him that we 're out . |
| 19 | How easy it is to let the seven-days-a-week routine become drudgery , be overwhelmed by work unfinished , and to lose sight of the original aim . |
| 20 | Just think how tangled up we are with pigs , how we love to hate ourselves as pigs , and how easy it is to turn a pig into a person . |
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| 22 | How easy it is to give children the wrong idea ! |
| 23 | We see immediately how easy it is to use them either positively or negatively , for beauty and life or for ugliness and death . |
| 24 | Most Creation 6 users know how easy it is to use colour and colour variations when designing on the screen . |
| 25 | How easy it is to use |
| 26 | How easy it is to use |
| 27 | At the end of the day , the right keycard system choice will depend not only on technololgy , its ability to adapt to the specific application and how easy it is to use , but on the reliability and the pricing of the product , and just as important , on the suppliers and their ability to provide international service and support . |
| 28 | I just thought the more facts you 've got at your fingertips the more easy it is to persuade people . |
| 29 | Certainly a visit to the plains of Africa gives one an immediate impression of how conspicuous the stripes are and how easy it is to spot a herd of zebra in almost any terrain . |
| 30 | I know how easy it is to do that , coming up there . |