Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible to move out of grief or bereavement ? |
| 2 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 3 | Amateurs , perforce , have to settle for less expensive solutions , and the low minimum illumination levels at which domestic camcorders can operate makes it possible to get by with just the available lighting supplemented with additional lighting to lift the foreground . |
| 4 | As a source of information , the return collates much that should have been delivered for registration when the relevant transactions occurred , so that a searcher may find it unnecessary to search back beyond the latest annual return on the file . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it harmful to come out of a temperature as high as 76 degrees after working twelve hours , into a cold atmosphere ? ’ |
| 6 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 7 | Some people find it easier to give up with a friend or a group at work . |
| 8 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 9 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Why do some men find it easier to get along with big-busted , mindless blondes ? |
| 12 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 13 | This makes it easier to switch off at the end . |
| 14 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |
| 15 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 16 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 19 | He says the fibrous nature of Linseed makes it impossible to plough back into the soil . |
| 20 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 21 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 22 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But , the odd unscripted upset aside , the chairmen and chairwomen find it hard to keep up with torrential voting in favour of the leadership line . |
| 25 | I was trying to teach him French , as he was finding it hard to keep up with the stream of orders and commands being issued by the staff . |
| 26 | Owen found it hard to keep up with him . |
| 27 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |