Example sentences of "[adj] it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Because of this it is often assumed that cleaning staff are familiar with the basics especially when women are employed .
2 And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field .
3 Mourners claim grass is so high it is now hiding relatives ' gravestones
4 It added : ‘ It would be a tragedy if the frustrations and the hardships that the recession has caused , and for some it is still causing , if it meant that Britain threw away all the achievements of the last decade .
5 The story of a village choir which forms the basis of the novel was Hardy 's recreation of tales of the experiences of his father and grandfather as church musicians shortly before his own birth , and as such it is clearly drawn from his deepest and happiest memories .
6 As such it is well placed at a centre point to visit all the other treasures of the region .
7 Compaction by mechanical processes involves movement by slippage between grains and the breakage , or fracture , of individual grains ; as such it is sometimes termed brittle compaction .
8 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land .
9 Once your water is soft it is easily acidified using peat filtration .
10 With these it is often initiated by acute tail-biting which gets out of hand ‘ and then the attacking pig or pigs continue to eat further into the back .
11 We need to make sure it is well used .
12 The association also welcomed the duty of care placed on people who produce waste to make sure it is properly disposed of .
13 If you leave it in the aircraft in the hope of a fine day , make sure it is fully charged .
14 Concrete is a good choice , but make sure it is fully cured to avoid chemicals leaching into the water and seal it with a polypaint sold for ponds .
15 Because the knot lies flat it is often used in bandaging .
16 After all it is well known that every type of electromagnetic effect is carried by photons , and we have seen that photons can not escape from within a black hole .
17 If there is a common culture at all it is usually expressed as part of the public world of government and state .
18 The new government , with strong Tsarist influence , is pretending to fight a war to defend the republic when all it is really defending is its aim of conquest and profit .
19 Although theft is illegal it is often regarded as normal and acceptable practice when an individual ‘ borrows ’ materials from his or her place of work for personal use — such as stationery , or makes 'phone calls on an office telephone .
20 When a report is long it is sometimes split into two volumes , one with factual findings and a second whose contents deal entirely with discussions and recommendations .
21 3 Of course New Yorks is not the capital of the USA. 4 It is well known that Maths is harder than English .
22 A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms .
23 The provision is so cumbersome it is rarely used ( see p73 ) , and in any event it can be availed of only where " all reasonable care " had been taken to avoid such misunderstandings .
24 However , if the winds are strong it is better left till last until the flysheet is pegged out .
25 Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole .
26 For Sheila to be committed to the partnership and agreement it is vital it is openly negotiated and freely entered into .
27 It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet .
28 The air-filled Parafoil has long been established as a stable single line kite so its development as a steerable stunter for two ( or more as we shall see ) lines came initially as a surprise knowing only too well how difficult it is sometimes to get a Parafoil started .
29 They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations
30 Try and think , work out how heavy that tree would be and how difficult it is actually to get a large tree into a lounge , living room , dining room , call it what you will !
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