Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer .
2 But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … .
3 Our study of exotic tribal religions , however , enables us to come to terms with this tantalizing problem at a safe distance ; indirectly it makes it easier to realize that it is not the presence of such beliefs that is odd or unusual but their absence .
4 It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial .
5 You may be right , but your cynicism would be easier to accept if it was universally applied .
6 Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document .
7 Some suggest that it is more important to be able to bring political pressure to bear , so that the elected representatives of whatever sex will pass legislation of benefit to women .
8 This shows that it is still possible to produce a useful and innovative medicine without the huge financial and technical resources that are at the disposal of the multinational corporations .
9 Prompting some to suggest that it 's not only his tongue that should be examined .
10 The ham is always easier to cut when it is well chilled and may be even easier to handle if it is lightly frozen .
11 This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity .
12 This declined until it was only 2,146 last year .
13 Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities .
14 It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men .
15 Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled .
16 But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter .
17 As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then .
18 Often their private ‘ non-political ’ opinion is that the National Front are to be condemned as extremists ; but since what the National Front is extreme about is racism , this implies that it is all right to be moderately racist .
19 This means that it is wholly braided as distinct from the type which has a central core of twist .
20 This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too .
21 This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory .
22 This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly .
23 This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility .
24 This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways .
25 This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway .
26 This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one .
27 This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money .
28 This means that it is very very quiet indeed .
29 If madness or the other is always inside , then this means that it is always already a part of reason or the same ; but it will also be exactly the element that reason is unable to comprehend , and will therefore work disruptively .
30 Spending is easier to cap because it is centrally controlled , and because the allocations to health authorities for running hospital and community health services , accounting for 70 per cent of total spending , are cash limited .
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