Example sentences of "and it [is] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And it 's good enough to have helped Oxfordshire 's young sailors become European Champions .
2 That brings out the colour of your eyes so beautifully , and it 's casual enough to look as if you have n't dressed up .
3 We keep getting beaten by the odd goal and it 's disappointing not to get anything from these matches , ’ he said .
4 But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers .
5 The Behringer is the panacea for my guitar-induced headaches , and it 's sensitive enough to take care of the variable pick velocities in the average full-tilt rock solo .
6 Like , it would be nonsensical to get Paul Weller to go play live on a kids ’ Saturday TV show , and it 's the same for all our artists : there 's a right environment for them and a wrong one , and it 's important not to force them .
7 If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home .
8 Since then things have improved markedly and it is rare now to see such howlers as the Wirral Globe 's explanation of a 16K RAM as a chip with ‘ up to 16 000 different uses ’ .
9 We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so .
10 And it is easy enough to answer the question : ‘ Why bother at all with the B arrangement , which is wasteful of paper , since three of the four versos are left blank ? ’
11 That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier .
12 Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York .
13 In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) .
14 This is near to 1.5mm , and it is soft enough to wrap tightly around the dowel , and accepts soft soldering for a neat fix .
15 However , the practice of conveyancing is a professional practice and it is important not to lose sight of good professional standards in one 's conduct .
16 Most children do grow out of their sensitivities gradually , and it is important not to keep them on a restricted diet any longer than necessary .
17 This is easeful music , and it is difficult not to like it .
18 Albania , however , definitely is a part of the developing world in the middle of Europe and it is difficult not to compare Albania with my previous experiences in Africa .
19 Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined .
20 Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction .
21 Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction .
22 Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy .
23 Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells .
24 However , this " sun-washed " effect , which emulates the ageing process , is often achieved by chemical washing , and it is advisable not to take the term too literally .
25 Several different coloured moon cushions would make a gorgeous present and it is fun sometimes to knit something different .
26 We shall have occasion later to examine the evidence submitted to and conclusions of the Bullock Committee , and it is sufficient here to note not only the submissions from educational and public librarians but also the committee 's support for the work of librarians in schools , and its welcome for the now-emerging courses leading to people dually qualified as both teachers and librarians .
27 An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise .
28 And it is hard not to think of one 's own horror at some of the things that the Irgun and Stern Gang are doing in Palestine , for instance , ’ David said after a long silence .
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