Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it became more difficult to achieve when those conditions no longer prevailed , as a result of the resumption of contact with North America and the rest of Western Europe . |
| 2 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 3 | The Rent and Mortgage Restriction Act , 1915 , fixed rents at the levels obtaining in 1914 , and although it was introduced as a wartime emergency measure , it became politically impossible to repeal after hostilities ceased . |
| 4 | It has so much to offer and it never fails to excite . |
| 5 | It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … . |
| 6 | It seemed so odd to think that they did n't know . |
| 7 | It sounds seductively simple to say that it is all in the mind . |
| 8 | It seems somehow presumptuous to believe that in 1989 Europe has emerged into a cloudless world in which such things are now no longer possible . |
| 9 | There may be difficulties in particular law centres in finding the right balance between assisting clients in individual cases and taking on group work or projects , but it seems unduly restrictive to deny that the latter was a proper role for lawyers to play . |
| 10 | It seems perfectly reasonable to assume that people who frequently commit crime hold ‘ pro-criminal ’ values . |
| 11 | For example , it seems perfectly natural to claim that the quantifier some in ( 23 ) means " some and not all " : ( 23 ) Some ten cent pieces are rejected by this vending machine and that would be the basis of the natural interpretation of a notice with this message , attached to the machine . |
| 12 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 13 | However , it seems more justifiable to claim that the RSVP technique is not testing the normal comprehension of sentences . |
| 14 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 15 | After watching the eye movements of subjects during REM sleep , and then obtaining reports from them of intense visual imagery , it seems only natural to assume that one has something to do with the other . |
| 16 | It seems quite reasonable to assume that , when a speaker is organising a ‘ speech paragraph ’ which has two connected elements as its foci , both elements can be made phonologically prominent in the introduction . |
| 17 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |
| 18 | It proved technically difficult to test whether these cells fled from acid conditions because they died when exposed to too great a gradient , although they could move about well in extremely acid conditions . |
| 19 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 20 | As the winter continues it becomes too cold to work and a day off is in order . |
| 21 | Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider . |
| 22 | The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system . |