Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
| 2 | On the whole I found it less tiring to keep the two of them apart . |
| 3 | Nevertheless Sadig Faris , of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights , New York , believes that its other properties could make it sufficiently attractive to provide the necessary cooling . |
| 4 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Require a modification to the DC-10 cargo door locking system to make it physically impossible to position the external locking handle and vent door to their normal door locked positions unless the locking pins are fully engaged . |
| 6 | You will find three food charts in this book ( in addition to a calorie chart of drinks ) to make it triply easy to follow the new high-fibre low-calorie method of eating reduction and health benefit . |
| 7 | Only in the sub-discipline within archaeology called ethno-archaeology , where archaeologists worked in contemporary ethnographic situations in order to study the relationship between peoples and their material world , was it usually impossible to ignore the social basis of material culture ( e.g. Gould ed. 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 ; Hodder 1982a ; Kramer ed. 1979 ) . |
| 8 | The gradual consolidation of wealth in the party was making it more difficult to preserve the classless , " one nation " appeal to working-class supporters . |
| 9 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , is my hon. Friend the Minister not concerned about the growth in size of housing associations , which might make it more difficult to maintain the personal contact with tenants which is an important aspect of good housing management ? |
| 11 | It is an aspect of privacy we should take more seriously ; it may seem a frail distinction to draw when armed police can batter down your front door on suspicion that a wanted person may be inside , but at least it gives the possibility of some redress , and may make it more difficult to achieve the total surveillance of society . |
| 12 | Relatives of the boys murdered by Harris found it similarly gratifying to stand the other side of a thick glass window and watch Harris choke to death on cyanide gas . |
| 13 | In practice , many clergy found it as difficult to collect the full tithes as the Inland Revenue and Excise do their latter-day exactions ; increasingly the payments were commuted for cash rather than kind . |
| 14 | CAC also sees it as important to educate the new plant team in the philosophy of the company — ie economics , social and environmental concerns . |
| 15 | It is true that the establishment Whigs found it increasingly necessary to downplay the original contract and the right of resistance , and came to argue that resistance was only allowable in exceptionable circumstances , such as those of 1688 . |
| 16 | It does n't squeeze very hard , Laba explained , but tightens its grip each time you exhale , making it increasingly harder to draw the next breath . |
| 17 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 18 | Companies find it increasingly difficult to attract the right people in the £14,000 to £18,000 range unless they offer a car . |
| 19 | However , it may take some considerable time to reach this target ; as the majority of DATEC courses are run in separate art colleges and these have been particularly squeezed by the current financial crisis , they are finding it particularly difficult to make the desired provision . |
| 20 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 21 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 22 | If , after reading the advice in Chapter 9 , you decide to keep to a very strict calorie intake of just 850 to 1,000 calories daily , you will find it very difficult to achieve the upper levels of the fibre recommendation and might even find it difficult to consume 35 grams of fibre daily . |
| 23 | I find it very difficult to accept the immigrant people and children that I come into contact with . |
| 24 | In extreme cases the project may fail to reach completion or reach it too late to make the desired impact on the market . |