Example sentences of "it [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 I actually found it I know me and you have discussed this earlier on and I , I , I did n't find it I found it confusing to be honest with you .
2 Leaving off with the ‘ imaginative fury ’ might make it possible to ‘ unlock meanings that fictionalising has obscured , distended , or even inverted ’ .
3 IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ?
4 It is therefore a very powerful dating technique making it possible to date the right archaeological samples ( see p. 144 ) to the year of felling , as well as providing the accurate calendar timescale necessary for radiocarbon calibration .
5 Long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea .
6 Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise .
7 The focus will eventually be sharpened to make it possible to ‘ see ’ individual large organic molecules .
8 Calling Prolog , ‘ the applications development language of the future , ’ the initiative stresses its memory management facility and its compiler technology which makes it possible to dynamically generate classes at run-time without having defined them explicitly .
9 Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous .
10 At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be .
11 The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door .
12 It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned .
13 I mean , is it possible to , to have a holy , healthy attitude to , to sex ?
14 Although it would break the link between advanced and non-advanced further education , it would make it possible to ‘ develop a single coherent function for higher education outside the universities ’ .
15 But the question I was asked was — is it possible to just varnish — or is any special treatment necessary after stripping ?
16 I ca n't help feeling that such a position , though logically sound , would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied , and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin , Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist .
17 I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for .
18 It consists of a long gentle curve of slightly shelving sand which often makes it possible to be only waist deep in warm , crystal clear water several hundred yards out .
19 That 'll do , two points to mother Ann 's question Is it possible to re to traverse under the North Pole in mid-winter ?
20 He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation .
21 Well , that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods .
22 This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) .
23 If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand .
24 So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers .
25 I 'll put it nearer to you and then you 'll be able to , it 's really a mummy job this I 'm afraid
26 The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal .
27 I hate that is n't it awful to be obvious .
28 Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) .
29 Revenues from non-System V products such as Transaction Processing and Networking were up $5.2m or 54% , most of it attributable to Services .
30 How far is it attributable to more generally prevailing patterns of teaching and classroom organization in primary schools , including those commended by Leeds LEA ?
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