Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] is [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can imagine what loud sneezes did to Dawn 's nervous system and how dangerous it is to have a playful two-year-old near a very jumpy bird of prey ! |
| 2 | The more time given to the agency , the more likely it is to provide a satisfactory response . |
| 3 | The more frequently a response is paired with a particular stimulus , the more likely it is to become a permanent relationship or habit . |
| 4 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 5 | Once again you can appreciate how important it is to have a mixed and varied diet . |
| 6 | However , two everyday situations may serve to illustrate how important it is to have a practical , working knowledge of the law . |
| 7 | The heavier your pack , the more important it is to get a good fit . |
| 8 | Central Broadcasting 's Managing Director , Andy Allan , says how important it is to offer a good mixture of regional programmes with news at the heart . |
| 9 | If he is successful he is awarded a coloured sash and allowed to progress to advanced training sections . |
| 10 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 11 | The case studies considered in this chapter indicate how difficult it is to formulate a coherent policy for mergers . |
| 12 | Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt . |
| 13 | In accounting for the failure of the " Fifteen , historians sympathetic to Jacobitism tend to stress how difficult it is to launch a successful invasion , and that all the trump cards lie with the government of the day . |
| 14 | And , as I stressed earlier , the props for such beliefs come from within the black community : black kids tell each other stories about how difficult it is to get a decent job if you are black and , in a self-fulfilling way , it does becomes difficult . |
| 15 | Hunters often complain about how difficult it is to get a dead mountain goat down from a mountain — it simply will not slide easily across snow . |
| 16 | We have seen how difficult it is to gain a horizontal flow with such limited material , and that the resulting music is inevitably fairly static . |
| 17 | But the more extensive and varied the corpus of writings , the more difficult it is to identify a common set of linguistic habits . |
| 18 | But when I wrote it , nobody had realized anywhere in the world how unbelievably expensive it is to make an agreeable modern city , from managing traffic and removing rubbish to providing better education , housing and transport . |