Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 2 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 3 | ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen . |
| 4 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 5 | In order to improve the broadcasting system and make it better able to resist political pressure — a prime duty of the libertarian/social responsibility media — they favour a wider range of representation on various broadcasting boards . |
| 6 | Recent concessions on recording television programmes have made it much easier to use this type of material in education . |
| 7 | The establishment of the idea that the telling of the truth is thus subject to standards set by the use of a volume which is part history and part fiction , is almost tantamount to condoning the telling of untruths when the ritual is omitted , or at least making it much easier to justify such behaviour . |
| 8 | Administrators should find it much easier to manage large networks of servers and cope with users moving around the organisation , especially since the new release comes with souped-up Windows-based administration tools . |
| 9 | He says it makes it much easier to learn other languages while knowledge of Roman history aids understanding of British history and world affairs . |
| 10 | Yes , advertisers do keep coming back , precisely because they are currently finding it extremely difficult to secure worthwhile business as more and more companies are cost saving and doing all their collections and even legal work in house . |
| 11 | But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s . |
| 12 | Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending . |
| 13 | Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity ? |
| 14 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 15 | Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you . |
| 16 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 17 | Whether as ratepayers or as employers the farmers who ran the majority of rural councils found it more advantageous to provide tied housing for farm workers and build the minimum number of local authority homes . |
| 18 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 19 | Thus , the demand for money ( MD ) depends : ( a ) directly on national income ( as a rise in national income will reflect a rise in the total value of transactions and so will increase the demand for money to finance these transactions ) ; and ( b ) inversely on the rate of interest ( as a rise in the rate of interest will make it more attractive to hold financial assets , and less attractive to hold money , whether as part of an individual 's wealth holdings or as an outcome of a speculative activity ) . |
| 20 | The government believed it more important to balance public investment against private investment by keeping their discount rates in line than to balance overall investment against consumption by using a test discount rate closer to the rate at which consumers would swap current for future consumption . |
| 21 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 22 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 23 | For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women . |
| 24 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 25 | MAS will advise you if they consider that your requirements might at an early stage unnecessarily make it more difficult to find suitable targets . |
| 26 | The US embassy even suggested that a Conservative government might find it more difficult to keep public protest within bounds . |
| 27 | Voting rules could be changed to make it more difficult to obtain legislative approval for budgets , again reducing the power of ‘ high demand ’ groups by requiring larger than simple-majority decisions . |
| 28 | This would act as a barrier against damaging developments such as road-building schemes , as individual departments would find it more difficult to override conservation interests . |
| 29 | This makes it always possible to rest competing theories on the same facts . |
| 30 | Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment . |