Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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1 | The deficit , according to the Finance Ministry , represented 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) — a figure it believed acceptable to the IMF . |
2 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
3 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
4 | Because the computers on which most desktop publishing software runs are capable of displaying colour it seems logical to the software developer that they should introduce colour into their desktop publishing programs . |
5 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
6 | In his poem it seems related to modern city life by both ‘ interpenetration and metamorphosis ’ . |
7 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
8 | But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states . |
9 | There is a concern to increase the independence of members and to devise institutional relationships to facilitate a balance of powers that would give the Commons a more effective checking , choosing , and legislating role of the kind it enjoyed prior to the extension of the franchise and the organising implications of political parties in the nineteenth century . |
10 | By assuming the political economic circumstances of this displacement as given , of course it seemed natural to the colonial administration that the condition of environmental deterioration was the fault of the cultivators themselves . |
11 | As a result , when visual stimuli are flashed briefly in the left visual field it projects first to the right hemisphere whereas stimuli flashed in the right visual field project initially to the left hemisphere . |
12 | As a result , when visual stimuli is flashed briefly in the left visual field it projects first to the right hemisphere whereas stimuli flashed in the right visual field project initially to the left hemisphere . |
13 | At least in a plane it feels logical to be flying . |
14 | Communist regimes , by pointing at high growth rates , could once justify this squeeze on the consumer as an investment for the future , but with low rates of growth it becomes obvious to a work force that gratification is being denied rather than simply deferred . |
15 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |