Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many builders do not consider it financially viable to maintain a stock of materials at a yard . |
| 2 | After bilabial consonants , in words like ‘ happen ’ , ‘ happening ’ , ‘ ribbon ’ we can consider it equally acceptable to pronounce them with syllabic ( , , ) or with ( , , ) . |
| 3 | Our patients were manifesting potentially dangerous hypoxaemia , and we did not consider it ethically appropriate to withhold this form of treatment . |
| 4 | Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you . |
| 5 | If unleashed too suddenly , the pain can overwhelm us and we may feel it too much to endure . |
| 6 | However , lesbians are more likely than men to feel ambivalent about their own bodies and may feel it especially difficult to desire a fat woman who embodies their own fears . |
| 7 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 8 | Those familiar with piston singles would think it not possible to slow down a sleek aircraft that fast , because even airbrakes can not provide such deceleration . |
| 9 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |
| 10 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 11 | Since this sentence explains the context for what precedes , we might think it more natural to place it ( deprived of the connecting words " And then " ) at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 12 | Might they not think it more sensible to throw in their lot with their fellow Germans west of the Elbe , who know as much about running a liberal capitalist society as anybody , and have abundant reserves of capital , not to speak of generous welfare benefits ? |
| 13 | We found the machine was fairly comfortable to use for long periods , but the high body did make it slightly awkward to control in tight corners . |
| 14 | Being on a data base , I suppose it means it 'll make it slightly easier to update when you come to update it ? |
| 15 | The second is that the complexity of many production and commercial processes can make it particularly difficult to weave the coaching role into the normal run of affairs . |
| 16 | ‘ When everybody travels it will make it awfully pleasant to sit at home . ’ |
| 17 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 18 | Many people think that the poll tax has already been abolished , which will make it even harder to collect . |
| 19 | 1993 is the year when we all embrace a single European Market , the lowering of Customs barriers will make it even easier to move equipment and staff right across the European continent . |
| 20 | Nevertheless Sadig Faris , of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights , New York , believes that its other properties could make it sufficiently attractive to provide the necessary cooling . |
| 21 | Moreover , greater efficiencies in communication can make it relatively easier to control subcontractors and to separate parts of the vertical chain of supply into more bite-sized pieces . |
| 22 | Remember , do n't try to fly too close to the ground : 5 to 10 feet is quite all right and will make it much easier to smooth out any pitching which occurs before you have had time to get used to the light controls . |
| 23 | A knowledge of the different types of files found on floppy and hard disks will make it much easier to understand what your computer is up to , and what it 's capable of doing . |
| 24 | If we can achieve this it will make it much easier to keep the children engaged in the work throughout , even when they are watching what others are doing . |
| 25 | Deutsche Aerospace 's size should make it better able to compete in European and international aerospace projects . |
| 26 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
| 27 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |
| 28 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 29 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 30 | And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today . |