Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 3 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 4 | I mean they ought it would be easy to monitor because it is so it 's so concise . |
| 5 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 6 | It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared . |
| 7 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 8 | It also makes Troll flesh virtually impossible to eat unless it is very thoroughly cooked . |
| 9 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 10 | In a mild autumn and a warm soil this is easy to achieve but it is certainly worth sowing as soon as the ground has been cleared of the previous crop . |
| 11 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 12 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 13 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 14 | One individual may be more likely to survive because it is better suited to making its way about its environment and not because it is fiercer than others . |
| 15 | It is sometimes hard to get but it is there . |
| 16 | It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous . |
| 17 | But they are nevertheless able to agree that it is sometimes possible to elaborate functional relations of the sort we have considered . |
| 18 | But it is important to realize that it is only relatively recently , especially during the 1980s , that the full picture has begun to emerge . |
| 19 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 20 | When wearing crampons it 's important to remember that it 's very easy to spike yourself and trip up . |
| 21 | It is important to remember that it is often not possible to say with certainty whether a speaker has pronounced a syllabic consonant , a non-syllabic consonant or a non-syllabic consonant plus . |
| 22 | It is important to remember that it is never too late and no one is beyond help . |
| 23 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
| 25 | The example of the Delphic treasuries shows that it is not safe to assume that it is actually earlier in date , but it probably is so . |
| 26 | That night he was unable to sleep and it was only after taking aspirin tablets that he was able to get any rest . |
| 27 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 28 | It is important to understand that it was essentially a political war . |
| 29 | Additionally , GPs will be able to consider whether it is more cost-effective to refer patients to the hospital at all , or to handle the care themselves . |
| 30 | Tamar looked down at the child , scarcely able to believe that it was all over so quickly . |