Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB .
2 Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition .
3 In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates .
4 A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities .
5 If place is to be defined in terms of co-ordinates , the assumption that no particular can be in two places at once presupposes the ( logical ) possibility of a unique designation by means of co-ordinates of every single position in space , i.e. the possibility , in principle , of setting up an all-embracing co-ordinate system ; making it possible to differentiate unambiguously every point in space from any other from a given origin .
6 Some language learners also find it easier to hear e.g. a word initial sound at a predictable point in a frame .
7 However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away .
8 No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness .
9 However the different structure of the international legal system makes it dangerous to accept automatically a development in municipal law into international law .
10 There is no simple formula by which this may be achieved , and its very nature makes it impossible to draw up a catalogue of final behaviours to be acquired .
11 It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived .
12 He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment .
13 The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development .
14 Not only is it hard to see how the buyer can then bring an action for breach of contract , as opposed to invoking the express remedies of the clause , but , even if he were able to , there is no reason why general exclusion clauses capping liability or excluding liability for economic loss should not be effective , since they would then only have to pass the reasonableness test .
15 But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal .
16 But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal .
17 Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly !
18 Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care .
19 ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack .
20 It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits .
21 It all happened just the day before and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits .
22 But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said .
23 It all seems rather a shame really you know to do a take away .
24 You will find it helpful to work out the length indicated by the ? before you work out the area .
25 Before you start on an assembly , you will find it helpful to write down an editing plan .
26 Many customers find it useful to have either an AutoBank or AutoCheque Card .
27 When is it safe to fall off a horse ?
28 Desperately he clung to it unable to bear even the thought of the nothingness again , and felt Fox 's fury lash against him .
29 This makes it difficult to see how the judgement could be mistaken for a sensation .
30 I find it difficult to see how the order can be cut down and remain effective .
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