Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he admits , the divisions are arbitrary , but they have the advantage of making it possible to refer easily to the level of grammatical complexity in a speech sample , and to group children on the basis of language complexity . |
| 2 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 3 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 4 | Under this second head the project seeks to identify the criteria by which the universities determined it appropriate to respond positively to pressures for change , and then further to define the limits within which choices about the practical nature of that response were effectively constrained . |
| 5 | There would certainly be some , including many of considerable eminence , who would not find it easy to assent unquestioningly to the proposition that it was constitutional for Parliament to ignore the terms of union at will . |
| 6 | They embarked but dense fog made it impossible to put in to Ardbeg so they were all carried to the Small Isles , Jura , then to Port Askaig and West Loch Tarbet , returning to Ardbeg next evening after 24 hours on board . |
| 7 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 8 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 9 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 10 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
| 11 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 12 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 13 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 14 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |
| 15 | It all refers back to the lack of acceptance of women in the society . |
| 16 | It really hurt that it all got back to sex , ’ says Barbara . |
| 17 | It had 30 characters , from Steve Davis to Pontius Pilate , and it all led up to Stephen 's death . |
| 18 | Had it all come down to this ? |
| 19 | she just like thought he was , being a carpenter or something , and this brother , erm , her brother did n't know that she sung at all , so it all turns out to be a big surprise . |
| 20 | Peters added : ‘ This is my last Varsity match also and I know how much Mike Patton and I have put into the season because it all builds up to this one day at Twickenham . |
| 21 | ‘ It all builds up to the point where it affects your game . |
| 22 | Then it was You re a naughty child " sort of thing , and it all fell on to me . |
| 23 | And it all added up to 21 per cent and three seats . |
| 24 | For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man's-land across which to launch thieving raids . |
| 25 | The injustice of it all , the knowledge that Spiderglass possessed her and there was nowhere she could hide from them with their tracer in her head , the certainty that Karel could blackmail her with her string of crimes pushing her ever deeper into the mire — it all added up to just one thing . |
| 26 | As I held it in my hand it all came back to me . |
| 27 | And then , slowly but surely , it all came back to me . |
| 28 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 29 | But in the end it all came back to ‘ the family ’ . |
| 30 | I heard the Roker Roar and it all came back to me people were cheering and singing and happy . ’ |