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 | If we are to speak meaningfully in terms of membership it is probably better to define it in terms of communicant or active membership . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is indeed possible to say the same about the social world ; but it is also possible to deny it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is also supposed to announce it has finished porting Top End to Pyramid Technology Corp machines . |
| 18 | It is just impossible to fit it in . |
| 19 | If money supply is to be monitored and possibly controlled , it is obviously necessary to measure it . |
| 20 | Once an explanation has been accepted by the scientific community as a whole , it is very hard to dislodge it . |
| 21 | Once a person has attained archetypal status in the eyes of the world , it is very hard to break it . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although such examinations can be carried out by a court officer it is usually best to do it yourself and , indeed , some courts will even insist on this . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Useful investigation can take place in an individualised environment ( as many Open University students know ) ; however , it is often best to approach it as a co-operative endeavour . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Jackie wrote in 1974 , explaining his reasons , that ‘ when the racing bug bites , it is often impossible to shake it off … |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |