Example sentences of "it [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have concentrated on individuals adopted shortly after birth , making it possible to disentangle genetic from environmental effects . |
| 2 | Is not it possible to put many of those documents in the public domain and publish them as Public Accounts Committee documents ? |
| 3 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |
| 4 | Is it possible to make more of our later lives ? |
| 5 | Most importantly , it would make it possible to keep warm for much less cost and therefore mean fewer deaths and fewer illnesses from the effects of living in cold , damp sub-standard housing . |
| 6 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 7 | Hindsight makes it possible to distinguish ideal from reality , illusion from conceivable outcome . |
| 8 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 9 | Assuming the worst — that Mark has to be moved — is it justifiable to achieve this by threatening Sheila with legal action ? |
| 10 | Some brushes are also angled and this can make it easier to reach some of the tooth surfaces , in the more difficult-to-reach places . |
| 11 | This assumption makes it easier to understand some of the sudden political changes in south-eastern Britain . |
| 12 | I find it easier to get angry at the stuff happening around me these days because I 'm no longer naive enough to think it 'll simply sort itself out . |
| 13 | If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people , they are perfectly free to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ I hate to interject a note of boring realism here , ’ Piers said , ‘ but is n't it easy to say that in retrospect ? ’ |
| 15 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 16 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 17 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 18 | Whilst that may work well enough in a small firm ( though even then the theory may need some adjustment , if only for example to permit decisions to be taken while partners are on holiday ) , the complexity which attends the affairs of all solicitors ' practices of any size will make it impossible to give each of the partners such degrees of freedom or power . |
| 19 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 20 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 21 | French number 3 seed Janek Noah made an early exit from the Stuttgart classic A T P tournament today , complaining he was finding it hard to stay motivated for top class tennis . |
| 22 | The most detailed discussion of the difference between fall-rise and the ‘ compound ’ fall-plus-rise is Sharp ( 1958 ) , though this is not easy reading and many will find it hard to follow some of the examples . |
| 23 | So we felt it reasonable to put that into the pot for discussion . |
| 24 | I have found it helpful to categorise these into two areas — those which relate to the nature of mathematics and those which relate to the nature of mathematics education . |
| 25 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
| 26 | Even if an installation finds it convenient to use one of the smaller operating systems for much of its work , it may he possible to switch to an operating system that provides the extra facility to handle variable-length records , just for those files that need it . |
| 27 | Is it fair to condemn those of us who are starting out on our golf life to sub-standard courses just because we are victims of the golf boom ? |
| 28 | The reduction in the number of Points to Remember came as a result of observations that the rural mothers found it difficult to remember all of the Ten Points . |
| 29 | Abrams ( Bulmer , 1986 ) drew attention to the complexity of the concept ; many who are perceived as altruistic will themselves acknowledge the profound satisfaction which they derive from their supposedly selfless activities but find it difficult to put this into words . |
| 30 | These moves took place , however , against a growing background of uncertainty as to whether the increasing political instability might make it difficult to implement all of the agreements undertaken by the Soviet leadership on behalf of the Soviet Union . |