Example sentences of "it is [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency .
2 The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava .
3 Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all .
4 ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’
5 It is to teach our young people about Him , it is to bring them to a conscious faith in Him so that in the heart and life of the Church , they can proclaim and witness to the faith of the ages , that Jesus is truly God and truly man , the Lord and saviour of us all . ’
6 But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author .
7 It is staring us in the face .
8 Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake .
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