Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed . |
| 2 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |
| 3 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 5 | It is Liszt who nevertheless looms largest in the anthology , and in whose music I found it most easy to understand Crimp 's belief in Levitzki as ‘ one of this century 's master pianists ’ . |
| 6 | Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues . |
| 7 | Not until after the medieval period was it economically viable to recover amounts as small as this , and so the gold content of silver artefacts can be a useful indicator of their antiquity . |
| 8 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 9 | Why had she found it so impossible to resist Roman ? |
| 10 | Perhaps it was the universal bond between animal lovers and vets that made it so easy to become part of the community . |
| 11 | Why was it so important to get Steiner back and in the time scale indicated ? |
| 12 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 13 | Why was it so difficult to get ministers to meet ( a judgement , incidentally , buttressed by a careful reading of the Franks Report ) ? |
| 14 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 15 | Is it morally permissible to enforce morality as such ? ’ |
| 16 | This encourages price uniformity among sellers and makes it less easy to label price-cutting a computational mistake . |
| 17 | And she found it terribly difficult to get dresses ! |
| 18 | Is it enough just to give orders and instructions , or is the field of communication wider ? |
| 19 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 20 | Windows makes it much easier to exchange information between different packages ; there are various mechanisms , one of which allows you to use the mouse to highlight a chunk of information in a spreadsheet , say , to be cut-and-pasted to a Windows word processor via an intermediate storage area called a clip-board . |
| 21 | Using still images makes it much easier to initiate discussion of the organisation and use of space : the constraints of the task allow us to focus on specifics ; the stillness makes the work much more open to inspection . |
| 22 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |
| 23 | This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment , as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees . |
| 24 | His new status made it much easier to raise money for expeditions and so satisfy his quest for adventure . |
| 25 | The office was established because court staff found it extremely time-consuming to assist litigants in person with processing a claim , and , in particular , with providing help with summonses . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 27 | Frankly , I find it extremely difficult to make judgments about any of the 5,451 AIDS sufferers , let alone the 16,828 |
| 28 | Not only is it not necessary to confine sex to the bedroom , it is disastrous to associate sexual activity with ‘ going to bed ’ . |
| 29 | For normal political life to be maintained in Northern Ireland , is it not critical to defeat terrorism , and must not that defeat come before political changes or constitutional arrangements ? |
| 30 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |