Example sentences of "it [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible to wear it with a belt ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is it possible to convert it to a Series III negative earth electrical system including alternator , removing the two existing 6V batteries fitting two 12V batteries to be run off a split charging unit ? |
| 5 | Er , if it is desirable is it possible to have one with a monarchy in place do you think ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 8 | Few academics would think it proper to bring themselves before the reader in this way , particularly in a work of learning . |
| 9 | Is it adequate to see it as an accommodation to existing educational structures , as Layton does ? |
| 10 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They are flexible enough to bend , making it simple to slot them into the side strips . |
| 14 | It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 19 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 20 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 21 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 22 | He had found it difficult to accustom himself to the practice , although with the right kind of company there were undoubted compensations . |
| 23 | This makes it difficult to incorporate them into a colour scheme , although a well-pressed orchid can look very effective as the centrepiece of a design if surrounded by flowers of complementary colours . |
| 24 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 25 | There are a number of major problems with this interpretation of events , however , which makes it difficult to accept it as an entirely adequate explanation . |
| 26 | ‘ It is very good for old people and sufferers of arthritis who find it difficult to dry themselves with a towel , ’ says Chris . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |