Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible to unscrew the retaining nuts to remove two 20-year-old basin taps , set in hard putty , without cracking the basin ? |
| 2 | It seems that in the case of Texas there is yet another irony of penal reform : unemployment increases the prison population , but also makes it possible to provide the new prisons for which the need has been created . |
| 3 | The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way . |
| 4 | Is it possible to forget the unhappy consequences for the Alliance of the Liberal discord male manifest at the Eastbourne Conference of 1986 ? |
| 5 | It was stated that solicitors would not find it possible to prepare the written briefs , and that it would be unfair to expect them to do so . |
| 6 | Was it possible to combine the two roles ? |
| 7 | The Buckley-Valeo ruling supported the rise in campaign spending as it declared it unconstitutional to limit the personal contributions of a candidate for their own campaign . |
| 8 | In the light of day , it clear to see the potential dangers of the drive . |
| 9 | Such differences in the behaviour of different cancers of the same organ does not make it easy to identify the right hormones for treatment . |
| 10 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 11 | Substantial investments in distribution systems or overseas plants may be the only means of overcoming barriers which otherwise would make it impossible to reap the full returns from a given technical process . |
| 12 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 13 | Vera Coppard , attending St Christopher 's School at Letchworth , found it hard to take the persistent jokes about her being a Germany spy . |
| 14 | Operators in other countries may maintain that they have ‘ commercial ’ digital services , but as yet they have few customers and they are finding it hard to rival the falling prices of analogue cellular networks . |
| 15 | But where the qualification is the doing of something of value to the seller , and where the qualification only suffices for one sale and must be reacquired before another sale , I find it hard to regard the repeated acquisitions of the qualification as anything other than parts of the consideration for the sales . |
| 16 | He found it hard to integrate the required skills of Matthew Le Tissier into his side which annoyed the fans . |
| 17 | She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself . |
| 18 | If you do not have either you may find it helpful to use the following guidelines . |
| 19 | As well as asking why you have been selected as a redundancy candidate and , if appropriate , arguing that a fair procedure would result in the selection of one of your colleagues instead , you may find it fruitful to explore the other ways in which the company can achieve the desired savings without putting your job at risk . |
| 20 | The fact that the government thought it vital to supplement the economic incentives of NEP by a new Agrarian Code , brought out at the end of 1922 , showed how far the Famine had altered previous calculations . |
| 21 | In fine weather it was pleasant to be in the harvest field , but as the season wore on lashings of cold or bleak shafts of wind driven rain made it disagreeable to handle the wet sheaves . |
| 22 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 23 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 24 | When technological spillovers exist , firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities . |
| 25 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 26 | He found it difficult to pick the right words . |
| 27 | Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces . |
| 28 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the drafting problems that would be encountered , the imposition of such a system might well be resented by sentencers who would probably not find it difficult to subvert the intended aims through a process of ‘ destructive interpretation ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |