Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , since we see his victims through his eyes it becomes harder to keep our own perspective , and judgement , clear . |
| 2 | But in the circumstances it seemed better to remain silent , particularly with Rohan Saint Yves marching grimly at her shoulder like some gaoler . |
| 3 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 4 | ‘ When you have the Russian empire collapsing within a matter of weeks it seems ridiculous to say we can not move faster . ’ |
| 5 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 6 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 7 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 8 | Yet as its name suggests the system 's most distinctive feature is the transferability of votes , and since they are in fact transferred in large quantities it seems paradoxical to ignore them . |
| 9 | As for the drive towards egoism by withdrawing from emotional awareness , in competitive conditions it appears reasonable to detach oneself from the joys as well as the troubles of others , on the calculation that love or trust is likely to be betrayed , and any generous action may be utilized against oneself . |
| 10 | In many ways it seems churlish to criticize Competing Discourses as I have , for there are so few books available which engage with discourse stylistics in a manner which is readable and accessible . |
| 11 | When posed in such stark but accurate terms it becomes difficult to see why this is supposed to amount to a distinct moral justification for punishment . |
| 12 | In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' . |
| 13 | When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples . |
| 14 | When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples . |
| 15 | Is this why , we ask ourselves , the Local Education Authority , out of one hundred and thirty teachers it promised extra to employ during this current financial year , there are only sixty three visible new teachers , and sixty seven of them are alas imaginary ? |
| 16 | As already indicated , the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. was the contractor for the construction of this line and with regard to the haste with which it had to be built , Brush Budget , their house magazine , had the following to say , ‘ For legal reasons it became necessary to build the line very quickly and the Brush Company laid ten miles of track in six weeks . |
| 17 | for anatomical reasons it proved impossible to cannulate the portal vein in four patients , two were referred for surgical intervention , and one patient has required further admission for transfusion because of bleeding from portal gastropathy . |
| 18 | For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe . |
| 19 | With two-dimensional representations such as maps it remains important to avoid too much homogeneity and provide substructure in the form of main roads and key buildings or other features such as rivers . |
| 20 | In many cases it proved unrealistic to cast aside previously initiated electoral promises . |
| 21 | In general for specific cases it seems better to replace the word " sensible " with stated limits ( Example 100 ) . |
| 22 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 23 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 24 | Do n't ignore it just because at times it seems impossible to deal with . |
| 25 | If we accept the importance of these factors it becomes necessary to consider how they are related to intonation , and what intonation itself consists of . |
| 26 | There are certain precautions it seems wise to take while the crisis continues . |
| 27 | Then as you start to make the point you 'll find your hands will come up naturally and bend from the elbows it sounds crazy to say but if if you suddenly go coo I 've got everything in me pocket but |
| 28 | For example , in order to argue that reform was intended to remove power from working-class representatives it becomes necessary to exaggerate their power , and the differences between authorities controlled by different parties , as well as the influence of community groups of various sorts ( pp. 235–6 ) . |