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

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1 But after slaving over something for ten years , it is rather nice to show it off a bit .
2 It is rather unfortunate to call it a force because it is n't one .
3 Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid .
4 Cancellation is the least favoured option : once a project is cut out of the Long-Term Costing , it is rarely possible to argue it back in again .
5 So far , this has indicated the most elementary sort of raw evidence which the historian needs to use , but it is rarely satisfactory to describe it as ‘ primary material ’ in the old sense of ‘ sources ’ .
6 Sutton council has slapped a Smoke Nuisance Notice on BR to stop stump-burning but admits it is otherwise powerless to stop it felling trees on its own land .
7 Though it may be the last right remaining for the terminally ill or the aged , it is remarkably easy to undermine it .
8 This means that the enquirer is generating data and making interpretations of material which is usually repressed and made unconscious because it is emotionally painful to articulate it .
9 If you seriously wish to lose your weight then it is most sensible to do it by looking carefully at your diet and eating a good balance of carbohydrates and protein with a reduced fat content .
10 Although some regard competitor analysis as a subcomponent of environmental scanning , it is probably advisable to identify it as a separate and distinct analytical effort to insure that it is given the strategic priority and management attention it requires .
11 In view of the approach taken by the courts to this implied term it is probably fair to regard it as imposing on the seller a separate obligation to pass to the buyer a good title to the goods .
12 Indeed , because care-giving is so crucially important to current community care policies , it is increasingly difficult to keep it entirely confined within the private domestic domain .
13 It is indeed possible to say the same about the social world ; but it is also possible to deny it .
14 But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history .
15 Because different people will affect the circuits in different ways the Trickstick can be adjusted for sensitivity and it is also possible to use it in a switch-type mode .
16 It is also supposed to announce it has finished porting Top End to Pyramid Technology Corp machines .
17 It is just impossible to fit it in .
18 If money supply is to be monitored and possibly controlled , it is obviously necessary to measure it .
19 Once an explanation has been accepted by the scientific community as a whole , it is very hard to dislodge it .
20 Once a person has attained archetypal status in the eyes of the world , it is very hard to break it .
21 The elephant analogy arose because most of us all of us recognize an elephant when we see one but it is very difficult to describe it
22 and it is usually necessary to remove it by flocculation with alum or alum with sodium aluminate , followed by filtration ; the final pH should be adjusted so as to be close to neutrality on the alkaline side .
23 Accepting that very is an emphasizing device , it is seldom plausible to take it as an intensifier of the property or properties expressed by the noun which it appears to qualify syntactically .
24 After symptoms of infection have disappeared , the virus may stay around the body for some considerable time , and it is often possible to grow it as long as one year after the infection has taken place .
25 Jackie wrote in 1974 , explaining his reasons , that ‘ when the racing bug bites , it is often impossible to shake it off …
26 Thus it is often convenient to treat it as the claim that no complex synonym can be provided which brings out the meaning of ‘ good ’ as say ‘ parent 's brother ’ brings out the meaning of ‘ uncle ’ .
27 Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership .
28 It is comparatively easy to put it down intellectually .
29 ‘ The obligation not to profit from a position of trust , or , as it is sometimes relevant to put it , not to allow a conflict to arise between duty and interest , is one of strictness .
30 As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered .
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