Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view , and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions . |
| 2 | It is easier to define the first of these terms and lay out the implications of its consideration , than it is to deal with civil society per se or its relation to the state . |
| 3 | As the controversy grew yesterday over the alleged Princess Diana love tapes , electronics experts told the Mirror just how easy it is to eavesdrop on mobile phones . |
| 4 | And I think it 's , a great deal of it is to do with failed expectations . |
| 5 | One group says it is to do with social deprivation , and the other blames people 's lifestyle , saying they eat badly and smoke and drink too much . |
| 6 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Lilley should go to any city in this country and try to live with nothing … find how degrading it is to go to those places and ask for blankets and ask for food . ’ |
| 8 | Just how difficult it is to move beyond this kind of thinking can be seen from Statement B. Here the principle of continuity is rooted directly in the process of generational transmission . |
| 9 | Finally , it is clear that centralized planning such as this must be kept under constant review , if it is to respond to changed needs and resources . |
| 10 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 11 | This is stored in the directory \Windows and all you have to do to run it is to change to this directory and type MSD . |
| 12 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 13 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 14 | Olive Stevenson points out how difficult it is to empathise with older people because we have not had the same experiences . |
| 15 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues ( CI No 2,143 ) , the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form . |
| 16 | Now reduced to a shell with news that members are believed to have backed out of providing their $3.5m dues — see front page — the organisation must now offer its testing services on other chip architectures if it is to survive in any form ( UX Nos 424 , 429 ) . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it is to yearn for closer unity to be built on firm foundations and to reflect the real desires of a complex patchwork of different nations and of peoples who live in that part of the world geographically known as Europe . |
| 18 | It is to focus on these tendencies through the embeddedness of economic action . |
| 19 | It is to fail in other words , to understand that literature can not simply be reduced to ideology , that literature has its own specificity , and that it consequently " reflects " the social process in a highly complex and mediated form . |