Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature . |
| 2 | She had made no reference to Joan 's first visit to the Hall , considering it unsuitable to combine such a letter with practicalities . |
| 3 | If you find it confusing to work cables from a written description , try following our step-by-step photographs above |
| 4 | Never have a , yeah it flipping does ! |
| 5 | Is it dishonest to laugh ? |
| 6 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 7 | The complexity and quantity of these hypotheses tends to make it impractical to define the control regime fully in terms of the knowledge sources alone ; instead , the pattern of activity can be quite complex and unpredictable , with sources being invoked and suspended repeatedly on different parts of the problem , depending on the characteristics of the data being processed . |
| 8 | Open learning is suitable for many people : for the interested housewife ; for people working full or part-time with horses ; for those working in other industries who are keen on horses ; for people who are about to embark on courses at colleges or training centres , helping them to prepare for what lies ahead ; to update knowledge ; or for experienced competitive horse owners or weekly riders — in fact anyone who finds it impractical to pursue their equestrian education by conventional means . |
| 9 | However , it was not at all convinced that a slight penetration with one finger could be regarded as an aggravated assault and yet considered it impractical to distinguish between different forms of digital penetration . |
| 10 | ‘ I find it strange looking at you all , ’ says Marya Lebyadkin , the crazed visionary cripple , the fool-in-Christ ( yurodivaya ) , in a touchstone meditation ; ‘ I do n't understand how it is people are bored . ’ |
| 11 | Before he could say anything Mrs Woodward exclaimed ‘ Is n't it strange to see a train at this time of night ? ’ |
| 12 | She said , ‘ Do you find it strange to see the Sun Chamber so empty , Captain ? ’ and Fergus thought : oho ! she is calling me Captain . |
| 13 | Familiar with his usual belligerent stance , Matthew found it strange to see the brash , self-confident businessman reduced to the kind of helplessness he was now displaying . |
| 14 | Did you find it strange working in butch butchery ? |
| 15 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 16 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 17 | Which would raise the further question whether this way , as practised by Olson , and by Williams in Paterson , is n't so unlike the ways of poetry as we have known it that to call their works ‘ poems ’ does n't merely confuse the whole issue . |
| 18 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 19 | Mm yeah oh well if you find , you know , there 's anything you like about it or anything interesting in it that does help because it , you know , it certainly makes it a lot easier to learn things , take information in , revise things erm whatever . |
| 20 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 21 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 22 | The speed at which VELA operates makes it possible to record results from experiments that are difficult to measure any other way . |
| 23 | Various schemes are being proposed to make it possible to record a wider range off-air for educational purposes but it is a complicated business involving different independent TV and production companies , different unions and a copyright law that needs to be reformed . |
| 24 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 25 | This makes it possible to link the Machs with other JTAG devices for easier board testing . |
| 26 | Genetic engineering makes it possible to join the promoter of one gene to that of another . |
| 27 | Theologians have generally found it possible to hold together belief in the fulness of God in Christ and belief in the unchangeable perfection of the divine nature . |
| 28 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 29 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 30 | This makes it possible to set up a two-way conversation using only one pair of wires . |