Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the growing ferocity of the Delhi heat it became increasingly easy to find excuses to put off ever leaving the house at all . |
| 2 | It became increasingly difficult to pay insurance and assistance benefits and at the same time keep them below the level of wages . |
| 3 | As the group concept became yet more prominent it became increasingly desirable to standardise terminology . |
| 4 | On subsequent nights it became more difficult to prevent REM sleep , especially in the early hours , and the number of wakenings necessary increased night by night until by the fifth and sixth nights subjects were hardly getting any sleep at all . |
| 5 | It became far easier to identify Jews , communists and Poles as the cause of their misery . |
| 6 | Absurdly , it seemed most important to soothe Gran , and she reached up to squeeze her arm . |
| 7 | It was all too late now and with the woman here , right in front of her , it seemed so pointless to feel animosity . |
| 8 | It seemed relatively easy to make money , and there was a lot of hype about going into business . |
| 9 | For Hesketh , now committed to racing and to Hunt 's career — with a generosity unparalleled in FI — it seemed as sensible to take Hunt straight up into FI , and Hunt duly made his debut at a non-championship race at Brands Hatch early in 1973 , there earning , in a used Surtees TS9B , a third place just behind Denny Hulme — and Hulme was , let it be noted , driving the McLaren M23 , a far more advanced car . |
| 10 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |