Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 2 | As printers became more powerful , it became necessary to send more control information to them , such as to set margin widths or select fonts . |
| 3 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 5 | It fits all Kangol framed child seats . |
| 6 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 7 | Its ability to trickle along at three-figure revs is legendary , and it has that thumping great reserve of power if you need it . |
| 8 | Quorum says that it has some Echo Logic-type technology in development that it calls Autoport and might be interested in a cross-licensing deal — see page four . |
| 9 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 10 | It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom , lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) rightly said that it costs more to collect that contribution than it yields . |
| 12 | It is cheaper in that it costs less to give one grant to a large unit than ten grants to small units . |
| 13 | In what ways may it become possible to create greater use of the recreational advantages and so to boost the tourist industry of Northern Ireland ? |
| 14 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 15 | From the findings of this follow up report it seems feasible to combine aggressive treatment of cardiac failure ( with its attendant end organ effects ) with early cardiac transplantation in severely ill patients . |
| 16 | Therefore , it seems logical to support Second Reading and to debate the details later . |
| 17 | It seems logical to study unprepared bowel in an unsedated patient , but this limits studies to the distal colon or requires invasive and time consuming intestinal transtubation . |
| 18 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 19 | Given the enormity of the subject of electronic record keeping , it seems appropriate to use one type of system to exemplify the key issues . |
| 20 | In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena . |
| 21 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 22 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 23 | AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad . |
| 24 | So far , however , as working underground is concerned , it seems safe to generalise that adult female labour was never widespread and was in decline in the later eighteenth century . |
| 25 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 26 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 27 | Philip Tompson gave so much of his life to fostering Christian work with young people that it seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of it . |
| 28 | Not only are the external stakeholders different parties , needing a different rational analysis to justify the decision , but it seems important to convince that group of stakeholders that managers have taken their interests fully into account in the internal negotiation process . |
| 29 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 30 | He remembers what it feels like to experience intense hunger and profound thirst , irrational loathing and sublime contentment . |