Example sentences of "it [be] a task [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a professional cook , Caroline finds the Christmas meal plain sailing — but she knows it 's a task which sends many people into a flap . |
| 2 | I must add that we will not be producing daily summaries , er I think it 's a task which is a fairly daunting on and quite frankly , er they will not be produced in the sense At the end That they would not be available at the end of each day . |
| 3 | It is a task which some of the more well-bred staff in the royal household find frankly distasteful — the private secretary to the Prince of Wales , Sir John Riddell , reputedly once told a producer from Thames Television , working on a fortieth birthday tribute to the Prince , that ‘ dealing with you people is like having one 's private parts slowly nibbled by rats ’ — but they go along with it because the deferential attitude of most of the media is the means of engaging popular support for the ins of monarchy . |
| 4 | It is a task which brings both pleasure and pain . |
| 5 | It will always be hard for the courts to distinguish between what is harmful and what is merely unpleasant or challenging , but it is a task which society must confront for its own good . |
| 6 | It was a task which occupied the next ten months . |