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

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1 The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum .
2 The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever .
3 The neurotic 's suffering is an important component in analysis in that it provides motivational energy to the patient to work at his or her analysis .
4 Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 .
5 For a police force still largely unarmed it highlights fierce opposition to the Sheahy proposals on police reform now before the Home Secretary .
6 After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) .
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