Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be answered by scanning the whole file record by record , examining each to see whether it met the specified requirements . |
| 2 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 3 | The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect . |
| 4 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 5 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 6 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 7 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 8 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 9 | Six to eight men hauled the Durham wagon round the streets — they said it was easier to move than it looked , as once it was rolling it was not difficult until it had to be stopped ! |
| 10 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 11 | Based on a simple thick white sauce , this meal is much easier to make than it looks |
| 12 | A pretty napkin fold is easier to make than it looks . |
| 13 | ( This belligerent insistence on Washington 's right to behave as it chose in the interests of US ‘ security ’ must have aggravated Cuban fears . ) |
| 14 | I found the metal of the cutter easy to work as it seems quite soft in comparison to the tool steel of my gouges . |
| 15 | The word MACRO is easy to remember since it means being exceptionally prominent , which is surely the aim of every ambitious young person reading this book . |
| 16 | This idea of flexibility applies as much to exercise as it does to food . |
| 17 | I hope , when Siward comes with his army , that you find the field as easy to quit as it has been to enter . ’ |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the program tries to be too many different things at once , and as a result it is n't easy to use as it claims and performs quite slowly . |
| 19 | Although the process is powerful it is by no means easy to use because it requires a very great deal of imagination and conceptual skill . |
| 20 | The techniques of showing decisions and actions are graphical and easy to understand unless it becomes so large that it is difficult to follow . |
| 21 | Financial support , however , is relatively easy to document where it concerns those wealthy enough to have money , property and other possessions to dispose of in wills , or indeed in their lifetimes . |
| 22 | Humber Manure is not easy to get because it has a strong smell and shopkeepers think it drives their customers away ! |
| 23 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 24 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 25 | It is n't a question Chairman but it 's easy to ask as it seems , we you said a ten year , but what about a thirty service of deferred pension , that could be an entirely different situation , because that is inflation put under the Post Office and B T ones it 's inflation proofed every year , so for the ten years , if he 's if he 's got another ten years before he draws his pension at sixty , he would have that er deferred pension inflation proofed every year . |
| 26 | It is easy to operate as it fits in with existing school organisation . |
| 27 | John has always said that prejudice is hard to combat because it means changing people 's inner feelings , ‘ their hearts and minds ’ . |
| 28 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 29 | But it 's hard to talk because it makes your jaws so cold ! |
| 30 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |