Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible to get it , whereas nobody can control , I think , cancers . |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that the 1908 legislation was commendable and is still valid , it is unnecessary to repeal it , because the European Community directive is intended to establish minimum standards . |
| 3 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 4 | And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it . |
| 5 | Because the reliability of a test is so important , it is usual to quantify it in some way . |
| 6 | For ease of reading , it is preferable to add it at the beginning of the file , but anywhere else is acceptable , provided that it is contiguous . |
| 7 | But I think it 's a little bit rich if I may say so Joe to blame the women for this because the parliamentary Labour party did vote for this new rule and the fact that a number of women very able women put themselves forward , I do n't think it 's right to say it is the women 's fault . |
| 8 | By placing your weight on either side of the board it is possible to steer it , as Fig 35 shows . |
| 9 | The resort village is not the end of the road ; indeed , it is possible to ignore it as you drive on up to the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin beyond . |
| 10 | If , however , the service is seen as a social institution , with aims which were , to a large extent , independent of market organization , then it is possible to see it as much more successful and of far greater significance . |
| 11 | The most notable was Windsor and Eton , where it is possible to see it now in its pristine state , for in 1983 Madame Tussaud 's opened the fully restored and refurbished royal station , adjoining the main Windsor terminal and unused for thirty years . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it is possible to move it , ’ she said at last , ‘ but it will let the burning out . |
| 13 | If a lesson involves groupwork , you might even experiment with keeping the camera fixed on one group of learners — it is possible to lock it off without an operator and it need not be too obvious to students that they are being singled out . |
| 14 | While the test is designed for textiles , it is possible to adapt it to cosmetic products . |
| 15 | Each and every employee should look at what they do to see if it is possible to do it better and more consistently . |
| 16 | And without deviating from truth or accuracy , you are telling it the way — and it is possible to do it , without deviating from truth and accuracy — because most of the trappings of the crap are ones that we impose upon ourselves . |
| 17 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 18 | When allocating time for the garter carriage , first decide whether it is possible to leave it knitting all night . |
| 19 | Equally , it is possible to deny it , and the lowest layer of the level-of-analysis problem is broached by asking whether individual actors construct institutional rules and roles , or vice versa . |
| 20 | It is possible to transfer it from one person to another so that the recipient can exercise such rights against third parties as may arise ( see for example Keene , Re [ 1922 ] 2 Ch 475 ) . |
| 21 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 22 | Learning from experience is a process and , like all processes , it is possible to break it down into its constituent parts . |
| 23 | Where written pupil work is produced , it obviously contains a great deal of information ; something can be learnt about the general stage of understanding of the class by looking through such work after the lesson , while more is revealed if it is possible to discuss it with the pupil concerned . |
| 24 | Its mystery does not affect the understanding of the Created God , for , to accord with the aims and claims of this book that mystery still rests in the pre-life period ; furthermore , it is possible to associate it with the concept of ‘ desire ’ put forward in the hypothesis associated with the Second Period . |
| 25 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 26 | Most people only have shingles once in a lifetime but it is possible to have it several times . |
| 27 | If the garment becomes torn , it is possible to repair it , taking account of the artist 's underlying intent . |
| 28 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 29 | Where guidance is required , it is possible to obtain it on points 1 and 2 from the relevant ( many excellent ) texts on contract and commercial law and on point 4 from some of the texts on general drafting . |
| 30 | 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 . |