Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adj] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 2 | Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved . |
| 3 | If the house has a solid floor , that too must have a membrane which extends over the whole of it , and although it is not possible to see it , any defects will show in the form of damp patches under floor coverings , discoloration or loose vinyl tiles . |
| 4 | Also worthy of closer inspection is the church at Stanley , its twin towers ornately fashioned in stone although it is not possible to see any detail from the canal . |
| 5 | It is also very useful to make up a full-scale plan of the seat of the chair , to mark in the positions of the mortises and tenons , especially as , the original being glued up , it is not possible to see exactly how the original joints went together . |
| 6 | In spite of this very real hazard , however , it is not uncommon to see quite experienced pilots leaving the ground with the elevator up , which results in the glider zooming up into a dangerously steep initial climb . |
| 7 | It is not uncommon to see hundreds of raw lengths of wood stored outside the building , awaiting conversion , via one of the specialised processes , into walking sticks . |
| 8 | Councillor bodies are often paralleled at officer level and it is not uncommon to see different outlooks prevail — a further dimension of complexity . |
| 9 | It is not outlandish to see in these verses a modern American so estranged from modern American society — its wastefulness ( ‘ Fat beans … |
| 10 | With many of Locke 's examples of modes it is not easy to see how this can be . |
| 11 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 12 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
| 13 | However , it is not easy to see anyone taking advantage of secondary safety features , such as seat belts , collapsible steering columns , safety glazing and padded fascias . |
| 14 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 15 | Since ideology works in a mysterious way , it is not easy to see what would count as meeting such a standard , but it is clear that Althusser himself does not succeed . |
| 16 | If the reason for the disappearance of the fuglicaa is a natural change in behaviour for whatever reason , then it is not easy to see what can be done about it . |
| 17 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 18 | On the one hand , it is not easy to see who would have been in a position to pay them ; on the other , the incidence of wage assessments fell away steadily as distance from the London region increased . |
| 19 | It Is not easy to see why . |
| 20 | Yet if we look at the procedures for embedding , it is not easy to see why one should count and the other not . |
| 21 | It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future . |
| 22 | Certainly , it is not easy to see on what basis the magistrate could have taken that fact into account when deciding whether or not to commit the applicant ; for the point only arises if there was sufficient evidence to justify the committal , in which event the magistrate was bound under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to commit the applicant . |
| 23 | It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus . |
| 24 | The case may be different from Chapman v. Honig in that the contempt involved was civil not criminal but it is not easy to see why this should point towards tortious liability . |
| 25 | At such a high level of aggregation , for an annual period , and reported some months after the financial year , it is not easy to see how most customers would change their behaviour because of them . |
| 26 | It is not easy to see It is difficult to see |
| 27 | It is not rare to see a mediocre drawing reach a relatively high price , just because it was owned , three hundred years ago , by a prestigious collector . |
| 28 | Macbeth is not happy to see Ross etc , as in play |
| 29 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 30 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |