Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's easier to recruit at the lower level than it is the upper |
| 2 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 3 | O N A less acrimonious note , I was glad to read that David Alton , the Liberal Democrat MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill , is likely to stand at the next General Election . |
| 4 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 5 | A customer capable of signing a cheque for £100,000 is unlikely to balk at the extra £10,000 or so , and Aston 's aberrant mid-'80s profitability was due in no small part to the fact that Gauntlett made his car more expensive , in real terms , than it has ever been . |
| 6 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 7 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 8 | In order to compare one year 's attendance with another , it is important to count at the same time each year . |
| 9 | When one visits a gallery it is important to look at the great works in the context of their period . |
| 10 | Sites vary throughout the world , and it is important to look at the local situation . |
| 11 | As well as identifying the contributory causes of a specific disaster , it is important to look at the positive actions taken afterwards . |
| 12 | Because trustees are rarely dealt with specifically in the income tax code , it is critical to look at the appropriate taxing section ( eg TA 1988 , s15 in the case of Schedule A and s18 in the case of Schedule D ) in order to ascertain the particular liability in a given situation . |
| 13 | Such a transfer is difficult to achieve at the best of times . |
| 14 | It is difficult to achieve at the best of times , but is , perhaps , especially problematic in education . |
| 15 | In order to fully comprehend the nature of the relationship between these sectors of the economy , it is necessary to look at the empirical material . |
| 16 | To illustrate further the significance of the Rasakumbha , it is necessary to look at the traditional teachings surrounding the Sanskrit words ‘ Rasa ’ and ‘ Kumbha ’ . |
| 17 | By defining retirement as coterminous with dependency , the ‘ structured dependency ’ authors inevitably see the trend towards earlier retirement as regrettable , but in fact it need not be so : this depends on the extent to which retirement leads subsequently to poverty in old age , and to discover this it is necessary to look at the other three main determinants of the financial status of the elderly . |