Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it strange that men never seem to wonder whether it 's possible to love two women at once ? |
| 2 | Do you think it 's possible to love two men , in two different ways ? ’ |
| 3 | Well when I went to Citizen 's Advice tha that lady said I do n't think it 's viable to have four dogs in a semi- detached anyway ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nice to get four victories on the bounce , but I just hope Christmas has not come too early for us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And it 's good to know one member of that family has a conscience . |
| 6 | They can also tell you whether it 's safe to take two types of medicine at the same time . |
| 7 | It 's able to spend ninety percent on books . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's important to have one leader . |
| 9 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 10 | The British petroleum industry has claimed that it is uneconomic to produce 97 octane lead-free fuel . |
| 11 | If it is necessary to create two modules which are very closely related ( usually providing the same user interface ) , then the loose coupling relation VARIANT-OF should be used in both modules : |
| 12 | Clearly , in order to obtain this kind of information it is necessary to conduct three assessments under similar conditions so that they are directly comparable and spaced at equal time intervals . |
| 13 | To measure internal reliability , it is necessary to compare two sets of test items . |
| 14 | In concluding this chapter it is necessary to mention two pieces of EEC law which will be of vital significance in relation to consumer contracts : the General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive . |
| 15 | For manipulations on 9th day or older embryos , which have to be done in a Petri dish it is necessary to introduce two bends over a microburner , similar to those described for solid needles ( Table 13 ) , although the exact angle of the bends will depend on how the micromanipulator is set up ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 16 | It is necessary to distinguish two issues here : whether a trust has been created ; whether it is actionable . |
| 17 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 18 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 19 | At this stage it is necessary to make three points about the scope of the Act . |
| 20 | In testing for Super Class 1 , Class 1 and Class 2 transactions it is necessary to make three comparisons between the listed company and the business it is disposing of or acquiring . |
| 21 | Earl ( 1989 ) argues that it is necessary to identify three issues in the business plan to help ensure the success of IT : |
| 22 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |
| 23 | If one is entertaining friends or business colleagues , it is nice to offer three courses , but this does not have to be the case every day . |
| 24 | It is usual to distinguish three reasons why people want to hold their assets in the form of money . |
| 25 | it is simple to calculate one person in a single room , two in a double , but that would not allow for an extra person in a room or for children ; therefore an average is calculated thus : |
| 26 | The design team may have many forms from a single individual working alone to a broadly based curriculum development team with specialists in curriculum design , graphics , programming and observation ; however , for our purpose it is useful to emphasize three roles — the curriculum designer who has overall responsibility for the program teaching unit and its associated written or audio-visual material , the program designer who realizes the computer program and the teacher developers in whose classrooms the material is tried and tuned . |
| 27 | It is useful to distinguish two elements in his view of knowledge and its philosophical elucidation . |
| 28 | For our present purpose , it is useful to distinguish two kinds of chemical reaction , according to whether the reaction releases energy or requires it . |
| 29 | In order to develop personal selling skills it is useful to distinguish six phases of the selling process . |
| 30 | It is useful to distinguish three theories connected with the metatheory . |