Example sentences of "it is [adj] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when graduates are finding that academic success is not an automatic open sesame to the job market — a recent advertisement for a relatively junior clerical/admin post at the University produced a crop of graduate applications , including at least one First Class Honours graduate — it is heartwarming to read of a Nottingham man whose business and his hobby stem directly from his campus experience . |
| 2 | It is appropriate to talk of ‘ marginalization ’ and ‘ peripheralization ’ because these terms are descriptive of social process , but the underclass model reduces capitalism to a description and confines action to moral outrage and good will . |
| 3 | Whether it is appropriate to talk of a " national banking system " by the mid eighteenth century is debatable . |
| 4 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 5 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |
| 6 | You now explain to them that it is better thought of as an object with certain transformation properties under rotations . |
| 7 | But it is better to think of the Pentateuch as one book divided into five sections , rather than as five books rolled into one . |
| 8 | More fruitful perhaps than such broad categorizations is the implication of Figure 2.1 that it is better to think of disciplines as occupying a certain space in a universe of knowledge , rather than a certain level in a hierarchy or place on a map . |
| 9 | There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum mechanics : for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles . |
| 10 | It is better to speak of such things than keep them hidden . ’ |
| 11 | Thus it is meaningless to talk of bootstrap activities by which we or they who are less fortunate can lift themselves up . |
| 12 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 13 | If , as Taylor argues , professional development is closely bound up with personal growth we must question whether it is feasible to talk of institutional development . |
| 14 | If it is legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the wrinkliness of a pea or the nervous system of an animal ( all geneticists think it is ) then it must also be legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the hardness of the stones in a caddis house . |
| 15 | In all cases in which natural selection has favoured genes for manipulation , it is legitimate to speak of those same genes as having ( extended phenotypic ) effects on the body of the manipulated organism . |
| 16 | Locke finds the theory quite unworkable ; for example , it can not be used to justify any actual political authority , since it is impossible to show of any particular monarch that he is a genuine heir to Adam 's original authority . |
| 17 | It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism , and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology . |
| 18 | There are local sceptical arguments of this strongest type , as we shall see in chapter 5 ( our knowledge of other minds ) ; and in our discussion of our knowledge of the past and of the future ( chapters 10 and 11 ) we shall have to bear in mind arguments that it is impossible to conceive of an event as other than present , i.e. as being in the past or in the future . |
| 19 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 20 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 21 | It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity ( though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf ) . |
| 22 | If it is not , then it is premature to speak of a unitary stylistic affinity between Great Witcombe " and the Leicester pavements : an integral level of affinity is " more appropriate . |
| 23 | At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) . |
| 24 | It is useful to think of problem behaviour as being caused by things like diet and hyperactivity . |
| 25 | It is useful to think of how we cope with the stresses of life as a set of scales ( see Figure 4.5 ) . |
| 26 | Answering the first part involves classifying characters into types , so it is useful to think of all types which might be relevant in answering the question — male versus female , old versus young , poor versus rich , and as many more as you can think of . |
| 27 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 28 | When it comes to fighting it is best to think of Goblin Mobs as characters with a +4 combat resolution bonus ( +3 from the ranks behind and +1 from the standard ) . |
| 29 | It is helpful to think of a leader more as a role with characteristic ways of behaving than as a particular person . |
| 30 | It is helpful to think of a business as operating in a number of different markets . |