Example sentences of "[noun] it is [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that bulk it is also easier to divide into little bags . |
| 2 | As mentioned above , where a firm which wishes to retain its own identity has increased the number of its branch offices it is sometimes difficult to retain an acceptable degree of harmony between the component parts of the firm and the partners attached to each part . |
| 3 | As a result it is often difficult to analyse the errors of a probabilistic system in an effort to improve its performance . |
| 4 | By constructing the marginal social benefit curve DD , the government can decide how much of the public good it is socially efficient to produce . |
| 5 | Listening to this programme it is very hard to see how their relationship works . |
| 6 | From any allocation inside the frontier it is always possible to achieve a Pareto gain by moving to the north-east onto the frontier . |
| 7 | With this in mind it is also important to define better the roles for endothelin-2 and endothelin-3 . |
| 8 | WITH thoughts of the summer and holidays in everyone 's mind it is perhaps appropriate to dwell a little longer on the steam opportunities in that popular holiday area , Norfolk . |
| 9 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 10 | In looking into the future it is always difficult to tell which changes are going to happen within the system as we know it ( democracy , capitalism , banks ) and which changes are going to alter the system — itself . |
| 11 | In the present state of research it is probably fair to suggest that although influence did have a powerful impact on the outcome of a number of elections , on the whole the electorate was not particularly easy to control , and that members of the political elite , despite all their efforts , often failed to achieve their ends . |
| 12 | In standard laboratory research it is usually possible to create stimuli which systematically manipulate the details of interest . |
| 13 | Possibly the building industry was one of the most substantial in the country , but as it was based on small local units it is virtually impossible to study . |
| 14 | To study Nizan it is therefore necessary to abandon cultural images . |
| 15 | In practice it is often difficult to define bibliographical types in a way that gives a reliable guide to content , and the selector is best advised to look at each bibliography individually . |
| 16 | In practice it is often hard to detect such anti-competitive behaviour . |
| 17 | On paper this may sound like splitting hairs , but in practice it is perfectly possible to make the difference clear . |
| 18 | In practice it is very difficult to decide what is representative ; perhaps the best method is to make a general study of several sections from the same sequence before proceeding to detailed description and analysis . |
| 19 | In practice it is very difficult to get two such small nuclei to collide and fuse , in beams of billions most of them simply miss one another . |
| 20 | In practice it is more common to find the words or behaviour part of the offence being breached rather than the distributing or displaying part . |
| 21 | Economic theory tells us that there are three types of merger , although in practice it is sometimes hard to categorize a merger as a particular type . |
| 22 | Although the method described above does give an explicit integral expression for V , in practice it is extremely difficult to evaluate this integral for arbitrary initial data . |
| 23 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 24 | For example , in practice it is extremely difficult to make a brain lesion that entirely removes one part of the brain while leaving the rest intact ; they are either too large or too small . |
| 25 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 26 | In practice it is extraordinarily difficult to tear ourselves away from that tiny part of the situation which has attracted our attention and aroused our emotions , in order to consider the whole . |
| 27 | With a modern car it is very easy to exceed speed limits and once you 're in the vehicle you become totally oblivious to the speed . |
| 28 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |
| 29 | Arising from the evidence in the literature and from our empirical studies at Chelsea College it is now possible to offer a model which is compatible with all the evidence and which also has considerable predictive potential . |
| 30 | Since ‘ real world ’ applications require the lexicon to contain entries for tens of thousands of words it is also necessary to consider how large the available lexicon is , the format of the entries and how much effort would be required to create new entries . |