Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 2 | That would include such areas as Burma , the northern part of Indo-China , if it became desirable to suppress communism in that country . ’ |
| 3 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 4 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 5 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 6 | With the family reaching working age it seemed sensible to take advantage of the expanding market for organic produce and increase the chances of supporting them all from the farm . |
| 7 | And by dusk were back in autumn ; it seemed sensible to make camp in this gentler landscape , but during the night an odd wind fetched up and snow fell , followed by an appallingly humid heat . |
| 8 | This disc is being sold in Britain , but it seems unlikely to win favour amongst large microcomputer manufacturers . |
| 9 | It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis . |
| 10 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |
| 11 | Carbon is versatile in chemistry in the way that bricks are versatile in architecture : it seems able to give rise to an infinity of different molecules , just as bricks can be employed to create a garden path or a palace . |
| 12 | The principle was , they believed , shown in the continuity from the solid state through gases to the ether in which light travelled ; it connected this seen universe with an unseen one , permanent and underlying this declining world . |
| 13 | ‘ When you reach our age , you 'll know what it feels like to have frost in yer bones . ’ |
| 14 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 15 | If , eventually , it becomes possible to increase productivity in this way , and such crop plants are developed on a large scale and for use in a wide variety of environments , it may help to reduce the impact of the enhanced greenhouse effect as well as increasing global food supplies . |
| 16 | In doing this she demonstrated the way in which , having once made contact with one 's feelings , it becomes possible to convert pain into creative action . |
| 17 | You may find it becomes hard to keep track of what 's going on between you . |
| 18 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |
| 19 | It had that dogged look about it . |
| 20 | The research it funded all took place in laboratories inside hospitals and there was nothing tangible to show for it . |
| 21 | The principal remaining air link for Baghdad had been Iraqi Airlines flights to Amman , Jordan , and Jordan stated that it would comply with the mandatory resolution ; it remained illegal to open fire on civil aircraft . |
| 22 | While the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 , enacted as a response to a fear of the spread of revolution from the continent , had been notoriously ineffective , prudence remained the order of the day even after their repeal in 1824 , and it remained convenient to take advantage of friendly society legislation . |