Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 2 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 3 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 4 | Few academics would think it proper to bring themselves before the reader in this way , particularly in a work of learning . |
| 5 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 6 | Well I mean there was an incidence where erm maybe a guy who did n't clean himself very often they would er a whole group of guys would find it funny to take him into the toilet erm fill a bath up with half with water , put bleach in it erm excrete in it , urinate in it and put him in hit , hit him with ba erm brushes , all kinds of stuff like that . |
| 7 | Some fabric wall coverings — ranging from hessians or burlaps , felts and flannels to suedes , wool , silk and moiré — come with a paper backing which makes it easy to stick them to the walls . |
| 8 | They are flexible enough to bend , making it simple to slot them into the side strips . |
| 9 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 10 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 11 | It all swung him towards the burning reality of Kee . |
| 12 | It all reminded me of the warmth and life at home and it was easy . |
| 13 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 14 | He had found it difficult to accustom himself to the practice , although with the right kind of company there were undoubted compensations . |
| 15 | One way will ensnare you and entangle your life to such an extent that you will find it difficult to extract yourself from the situation in which you suddenly find yourself . |
| 16 | Luke had never before found it necessary to summon her by the buzzer , preferring instead to call her name , and so establishing a kind of business-hours informality . |
| 17 | From Lenin 's use of an ‘ expropriated ’ Rolls-Royce and ‘ socialized ’ imperial palaces and capitalist villas onwards , the People 's representatives had found it necessary to insulate themselves from the daily difficulties of ordinary life . |
| 18 | I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded . |