Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents .
2 I think this is very bad , I think that I would like to see an expansion of the , of the intake and a broadening of its social base , and by the same token I would like to see erm it possible for more adult students to come in , perhaps on a part-time basis erm into the universities .
3 Recreational skiers tense up when they encounter fear , be it due to difficult snow conditions , moguls or gradient .
4 Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas — lack of greenery , unsafe junctions , chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic , much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north .
5 The Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 was an abominable piece of legislation , privatising immigration and putting it in the hands of aircraft and shipping companies , encouraging the use of bogus identity documents and , in many cases , making it impossible for legitimate asylum seekers to leave their own countries .
6 The breed 's reclaimed hardiness makes it useful for extensive suckling systems and there have been successful attempts to produce crossbred suckler herds ( especially Longhorn x Welsh Black cows to Charolais bulls ) .
7 The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this .
8 Why is it inefficient for different government departments to have different rules of thumb about the marginal value of human life ?
9 That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds .
10 This step ladder is Kite marked , and has a Class 2 duty rating , which makes it suitable for all household needs ; it is also widely used by professional tradesmen .
11 To make it suitable for public use improvements will need to be made including resurfacing the stone route — this will also make it suitable for wheelchairs — and installing metal railings by the path .
12 Their open-endedness is and can only be captured by a conception whose imprecision makes it uncongenial to real property lawyers , though it plays as important a part in legal doctrine as does the traditional tally of technical terms .
13 Engineering a time delayed ‘ lethal gene ’ into a GEM to give it a finite life — making it sensitive to low air temperatures so that frost kills it — is one way .
14 Rather , the tradition includes and is aware of its primitive origins : this reminds the tradition of its vulnerability and need to look for higher guidance , while keeping it aware of crude root emotions which can not be avoided .
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