Example sentences of "[adj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 2 | Now , my view is it 's entirely wrong it 's cheating , it 's doing everything wrong ! |
| 3 | Well it 's funny it 's working this time int it ? |
| 4 | Well , when it , when it is irrational it is operating either under the influence of the id or it 's overwhelmed by some external circumstances that it just ca n't understand the controls , therefore making all the wrong decisions and acting in a completely inadequate manner . |
| 5 | The intuitive explanation for this has already been discussed : the greater the proportion of the variance of the composite disturbance term which is due to the variance of the more sensible it is to attribute more of any period 's composite disturbance to . |
| 6 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid it 's locked and Francis had the key . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's going to have to come out , Colonel Feather , ’ she said gently . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 10 | " Well , it 's up to you of course , Mr Dakin , but this is the third time I 've had to stitch her teats and I 'm afraid it 's going to keep on happening . " |
| 11 | ‘ Then I 'm afraid it 's going to have to wait . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's going to be a bit sore , but as it 's such an impressive break we 'll put a garter strapping on to help immobilise it . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid it 's happening . |
| 14 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 15 | No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being , fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation . |
| 16 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 17 | First , it means that there must be some form of cost/benefit analysis , however distasteful it is to assign money values to life or ill-health . |
| 18 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 19 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 20 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 21 | You can imagine what loud sneezes did to Dawn 's nervous system and how dangerous it is to have a playful two-year-old near a very jumpy bird of prey ! |
| 22 | The basic principle of a budget is straightforward it 's to forecast your forecast your expend expenses so they can make plans for the future . |
| 23 | of course it 's serious it 's costing me two and a half grand at least |
| 24 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 25 | This shows how crucial it is to have funds available to support action when required from our Campaign Fund . |
| 26 | We have already touched on the importance of user interfaces ( see 1.4 ) and have emphasised how crucial it is to provide lay users of multimedia systems with interfaces that offer extreme friendliness without sacrificing power for simplicity . |
| 27 | This sample illustrates how easy it is to create abstract patterns from familiar objects by using the various options available . |
| 28 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 29 | And , it just shows you how easy it is to leave signs for the thief to tell him that we 're out . |
| 30 | How easy it is to let the seven-days-a-week routine become drudgery , be overwhelmed by work unfinished , and to lose sight of the original aim . |