Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 2 | This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ? |
| 3 | Like Unix , it started life as a development environment , and like Unix , it had intrinsic features that made it unsuitable as a production operating system . |
| 4 | The huge proportions of the main rooms made it unsuitable for conversion into houses , as did the flat-roofed additions — albeit designed with some care . |
| 5 | It does , however , have some properties which are less well understood , and which , in the view of some data analysts , can make it unsuitable for analysing some contingency tables . |
| 6 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 7 | Now , however , the unfortunate residents of Mer have learned that their village is to be the site of a huge new quarry which would clearly make it unsuitable for exploitation as a centre of tourism . |
| 8 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 9 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 10 | The natural history of the disease also makes it unsuitable for screening by imaging techniques : a normal scan now is no guarantee of a normal heart in the future . |
| 11 | The quality of the printing is very high although the restricted paper width makes it unsuitable for wordprocessing and other serious uses . |
| 12 | The sides are made of contrastingly coloured elasticated nylon with no foam fitted , the lack of kidney protection making it unsuitable for use in canoe polo . |
| 13 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 14 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 15 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The question might be phrased as : do you believe it dishonest for a person not to pay a fare which he believes he does not owe ? |
| 18 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 19 | If the RC is between 090° and 180° , then turn right towards the RC to bring it anti-clockwise onto 090°. 7 . |
| 20 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope you do n't think it strange of me to sit here , ’ said Reni . |
| 22 | It was my grandparents who raised me , who gave me an education , who made it possible through their sacrifices to become what I am today . ’ |
| 23 | Leaving off with the ‘ imaginative fury ’ might make it possible to ‘ unlock meanings that fictionalising has obscured , distended , or even inverted ’ . |
| 24 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea . |
| 27 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 28 | The focus will eventually be sharpened to make it possible to ‘ see ’ individual large organic molecules . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |