Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the more suitable the application is for bit-pattern index handling ( small numbers of possible attributes ) , the less suitable it is for inverted file handling . |
| 2 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 3 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 4 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 5 | The more open it is to cognitive , interactive and voluntaristic elements , the more misleading seems the whole vocabulary of learning theory as a means of describing it . |
| 6 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 7 | Okay to say how similar it is to one thing to another . |
| 8 | On the Monday they showed how easy it was for top-class bowlers to pitch the ball up and get wickets . |
| 9 | How typical it is of British government that the barrage dream should be allowed to dribble on and then left to fizzle out . |
| 10 | The measures which we can use include indications that the animal is failing to cope with its environment ( with the difficulties which it encounters ) and measures of how hard it is for that individual to cope with the difficulties . |
| 11 | And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’ |
| 12 | That 's how tight it was at that time o' day ! |
| 13 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
| 14 | I shall be dealing more fully with the use of the library in the next chapter , but I can not stress too strongly how important it is for all researchers to be knowledgeable about bibliographical sources and , sadly , how few social science undergraduates are actually taught the necessary skills . |
| 15 | With around 700 people a year dying in house fires , doctors from Cardiff Royal Infirmary stress how important it is for all homes to have smoke detectors . |
| 16 | A comparison of such different ballets as Enigma Variations , Fancy Free and The Rake 's Progress emphasises how important it is for young choreographers to remember that ballet is an art of the general as well as of the particular . |
| 17 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |
| 18 | The level of provisions ‘ demonstrates the immense damage which is done by extreme economic cycles and just how important it is for this country to strive to secure steady growth on a low-inflationary basis ’ . |
| 19 | I wonder how important it is for those players because the the competition over here has its detractors , what about over there , I ca n't imagine the Italians being that bothered about doing well in this competition , certainly the gates over there do n't suggest that it 's that important ? |
| 20 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
| 21 | These results show how common it is for small mammals to become trapped in pitfalls , and although there is some selection in species trapped , depending on local circumstances , the degree of bias is less than might be expected . |
| 22 | We all know how vital it is for good health . |
| 23 | Most of your colleagues will be parents or will know young people ; they will recognise how vital it is for these young people to leave school with relevant knowledge and appropriate skills and attitudes . |
| 24 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 25 | The widespread unease with several of the measures proposed in the welfare reforms felt by many Conservative MPs , demonstrates how difficult it is for any government ( even one with a large parliamentary majority ) to reform the Welfare State . |
| 26 | For men under 20 , the job offer arrival rates are at least nine times higher than for men aged 55 and over ( at the mean wage ) , emphasising how difficult it is for older unemployed men to obtain a job . |
| 27 | and they 're not appreciating how difficult it is for some of them families to send them there . |
| 28 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 29 | But this shows how necessary it is for proud , independent , self-reliant people to be broken , re-educated , and redirected to walk in the ways of the Lord . |
| 30 | How necessary it is for each one of us to apply the cross to our daily lives — to our giving to one another and to God of our money , our time , our talents . |