Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 2 | Thus , all ‘ go ’ periods tended to be followed by ‘ stop ’ periods and it became difficult to achieve long-term economic growth . |
| 3 | Finally , it became clear that no preliminary conference would be possible without widening the discussions unduly , and it seemed best to hold bilateral discussions first . |
| 4 | To do this is also to go ‘ beyond ’ the unconscious , and it seems impossible to do this , as Urwin hopes , without reducing the unconscious , the last resort of subjectivity 's difficulty , to a discursive product . |
| 5 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 6 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 7 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 8 | But it takes two to get pregnant , and it is just as important to educate boys about contraception . |
| 9 | In many cases this would render consideration of A's tort liability in a case of actual knowledge otiose , but it seems possible to assert such a claim where there is some additional loss . |
| 10 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 11 | Not only are the external stakeholders different parties , needing a different rational analysis to justify the decision , but it seems important to convince that group of stakeholders that managers have taken their interests fully into account in the internal negotiation process . |
| 12 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 13 | If a mare is fit and healthy , with a normal oestrous cycle , there is no reason to suppose she will have problems in foaling , but it seems fair to suggest that teenage mares be checked out by a vet before you start working out names for the as-yet unconceived foal . |
| 14 | The 1983 law banning the use of the Kurdish language in private life and songs was also repealed [ see also p. 37969 ] , but it remained illegal to use Kurdish in broadcasting or print . |