Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half television , half microscope , Roberts 's invention made it possible to magnify living tissues up to 25,000 times , against an ordinary miscroscope 's 5,000 times . |
| 2 | Many young women find it possible to love two men simultaneously . |
| 3 | in the day of high technology , is n't it possible to devise some scheme where they can go round and spray camp which leaves an invisible but detective in a way of magnetic or something er marking on the pavements , in New Master this week we 've seen a eruption of white , yellow , green and blue erm spray paint on the pavements , all by different contractors or |
| 4 | It was feared that an emphasis on individual tribal culture might increase or encourage separatism : was it possible to find common ground out of which would emerge a truly indigenous Tanzanian culture ? |
| 5 | Alternatively , is it possible to find another way altogether , a way which does not simply resolve the dilemma , but one which transforms the problem into a solution ? |
| 6 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 7 | ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together . |
| 8 | This makes it easy to find that point again . |
| 9 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 10 | The lack of an appropriate animal model makes it impossible to investigate this question further at present . |
| 11 | Similarly , some of the bigger employers are finding it impossible to attract young workers on to their YTS schemes . |
| 12 | Owen found it hard to take such incidents seriously . |
| 13 | It all began forty-four years ago . |
| 14 | It all began 40 years ago when David was 18 and his father started him off farming at Mowbray House . |
| 15 | It all began last November when wrote off for an application form and shortly afterwards they were invited , along with 8,000 other families , to go to Birmingham for an audition . |
| 16 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 17 | The company is called Cromemco , after the dormitory , Crothers Memorial , where it all started six years ago . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ The trouble is that when it all started 100 years ago no-one envisaged just how popular rock climbing would become . |
| 19 | It all started several years ago when Matthew was commissioned to produce a graphics pattern for the film processing industry . |
| 20 | It all started 2 years ago last October . |
| 21 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 22 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 23 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 24 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |
| 25 | It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star . |
| 26 | He would have felt it demeaning to condemn this world utterly without first paying a visit to the vicinity of its ruler . |
| 27 | The only thing in the way is the fact that all nuclei are electrically charged and ‘ like charges repel ’ : this repulsion makes it difficult to force those nuclei together . |
| 28 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 29 | No longer is it necessary to dye each colour separately and then physically blend them together . |