Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem list is likely to be most useful if it has been jointly formulated by the patient and the therapist ( p. 70 ) . |
| 2 | You become excited when you discover an entry from a brand leader but descend into despondency when you find that large , marketing-led organisations can be incredibly sloppy when it comes to presenting written reports . |
| 3 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 4 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 5 | A distorted lack-of-pulse is unlikely to be so pulse-like that it confuses the equipment . |
| 6 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 7 | No Christology can be so low that it overcomes the feminist difficulty by saying of Jesus that he was no different from every other human who has lived . |
| 8 | If you choose a backing in the middle of the tonal range , such as a bright turquoise green , its colour will be so strong that it overpowers those of the pressed materials . |
| 9 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 10 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 11 | Eventually it may be so long that it reaches the other side of the gap and becomes entangled in a leaf or a twig . |
| 12 | In addition , the charge may be so all-embracing that it confers on the chargee as a matter of fact the exclusive right to supply the debtor company with credit . |
| 13 | I took the cliff road and the wind could be so fierce that it blew me off my bike more than once . |
| 14 | People need to see what they 're eating but the light must never be so bright that it kills any atmosphere you 're trying to achieve . |
| 15 | In fact , this definition would be highly restrictive because it depends upon the subjective views of both client and practitioner . |
| 16 | The use of reference selling in industrial marketing can be highly successful since it reduces the perceived risk for a potential buyer . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 18 | The problem is that the ‘ well-constructed ’ or ‘ textbook ’ ad is liable to be extremely boring unless it embodies a really good idea , and that it is possible for a skilled creative person to bend the ‘ rules ’ of construction in such a way as to make a moderately good idea look or sound much better . |
| 19 | Trapping data into files in this way can be extremely useful because it changes ephemeral data into a permanent list . |
| 20 | The egg needs to be extremely large because it contains the nourishment required to produce a most precocious chick . |
| 21 | In fact the lymphangiogram turned out to be less arduous than it sounded . |
| 22 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 23 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 24 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 25 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 26 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 27 | And having long been supported by the institution he will be crucially aware that it expects a degree of loyalty verging on deference or acquiescence . |
| 28 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 29 | Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . " |
| 30 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |