Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adj] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's surely better to do without milk and butter than without bread . |
| 2 | It 's right easy to do . |
| 3 | That 's a good example of how much hearing Clarence White influenced me ; it 's pretty tough to do and it 's rough on the fingers , but you can do it if you keep working at it . |
| 4 | It 's rarely possible to do this without damaging the glass , so have a new piece ready . |
| 5 | Well , it 's always erm possible to , to do harm , but it 's also possible to do a lot of good by the interest that 's shown in , in children 's work . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's also all to do with stiffness . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's fucking easy to do an obscure jazz album or some rootsy blues album . |
| 8 | It 's really more to do with the er means rather than the ends , which I think we sh we all share and so i it was actually included more out of of sadness than anger and we tearfully put the word regret , not condemns , but regret really , the way that the campaign has been launched against the Trust . |
| 9 | It seems to me it 's almost impossible to do so , because what is threatening and abusive in one situation would n't be in another . |
| 10 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 11 | It 's quite normal to do that , . |
| 12 | It 's quite easy to do this without spending a fortune |
| 13 | It 's quite easy to do this without spending a fortune , ’ she says . |
| 14 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 15 | Now , designing systems like that requires computers with big memories , much , much bigger than the ones that you can buy in your shop round the corner at the moment , and the programs are quite complicated , it 's quite difficult to do this sort of thing , but in principle there 's no reason why it should n't happen , and that would make computers much easier to learn to use . |
| 16 | If you 've got no money , then it 's quite hard to do anything exciting . |
| 17 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 18 | That 's why it 's damn tricky to do it ! |
| 19 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 20 | Now that is an offence and the Trading Standards keep a very , and , and of course the Evening Post themselves , keep a very close check on those phone numbers and it 's much easier to do it nowadays with computers . |
| 21 | Well I think it 's absolutely necessary to do this in supermarkets but erm you know that maybe fair trading in our country supermarkets erm are not the only way to shop . |
| 22 | It 's so easy to do in rehearsal and yet , when that moment comes , something happens to your throat . |
| 23 | It 's so easy to do . |
| 24 | But , if we make the reward of the item of food erm not predictable , okay , so it comes at variable intervals er then the rat actually works harder pressing the lever , it 's more likely to do the behaviour and it 's less likely to give up doing that behaviour afterwards , okay ? |
| 25 | It 's certainly possible to do a fair modicum of string bending on the Moon without suffering from the usual de-tuning syndrome which afflicts most floating trems . |
| 26 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 27 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
| 28 | It 's too , it 's too long to do anything with and to short |
| 29 | ‘ It 's too late to do it today . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's too late to do much about it except to make sure you always lock up your personal computer . ’ |