Example sentences of "[adj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 3 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 4 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 5 | How different it is when someone , perhaps someone close to us , perhaps someone we have never met , helps us to view the world through different eyes . |
| 6 | So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one . |
| 7 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 8 | Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees . |
| 9 | He also failed to protect his people : if anything is clear it is that , and it can not have increased his popularity . |
| 10 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 11 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 12 | With rules generally being so rigid it is hardly surprising that diets , and the good intentions that go with them , quickly get left behind . |
| 13 | Do n't you see how wrong it is , to trick this man out of his job ? ’ she said , looking round the table . |
| 14 | Considerable effort goes into the organisation of the operations and if things go wrong it is n't their fault . |
| 15 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 16 | I mean it is wrong and I do n't think people realize just how wrong it is until they really stop and think about it . |
| 17 | Well I still think that well say you have a big massive thing and , and say it 'd take a hundred people mm er I suppose the bigger it is the more economical it is . |
| 18 | ‘ Aah 'll not wrap up 'ow grave it is , ’ he said heavily . |
| 19 | Having seen their fish swimming around in a tank or pond only minutes before they eat it , the Cantonese know how fresh it is . |
| 20 | I do n't know how fresh it is , even with this rain , but we can boil everything . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten how funny it is ; from now on I shall be using it in casual conversation more often . |
| 22 | Now I 'm so high it is just amazing . |
| 23 | Unless there are political brownie points from on high it is most unlikely you will receive assistance . |
| 24 | Finally , if levels are still high it is probably because the target is too difficult and an intermediate , less difficult , target must be inserted and overcome first . |
| 25 | If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply . |
| 26 | Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know . |
| 27 | And he wants to know how high it is . |
| 28 | These are generally considered unsuitable for modern treatment of the mentally ill , but so long as demand for beds is high it is difficult to do more than try to upgrade and improve them . |
| 29 | As the tent is quite high it is prone to catching winds broadside which distorts the shape . |
| 30 | Barro 's argument for the inclusion of this variable is that if government expenditure is equal to its normal level , it will tend to be financed by orthodox taxation , but if it is , say , abnormally high it is more likely to be financed by measures which increase the rate of monetary growth . |