Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |
| 2 | While women only comprised 13 per cent of the students financed by SERC , they were finding it rather more difficult to find work than the men . |
| 3 | Engels says that Cognos is now in the early stages of negotiation with ICL and Bull and the company is engineering a Unix System V.4-compliant product that will make it economically more reasonable to appear on a wider variety of Unix environments . |
| 4 | ‘ If more judges are required because of the greater degree of litigious activity it is logical to assume that those successful counsel of high calibre who would be candidates for judge 's office would find it economically more gratifying to remain as advocates ’ , he said . |
| 5 | Indeed , the quality feel of the car , the ease and enjoyment of driving it , and the handling and ride rewards that its Hydragas suspension offers make it all too simple to overlook the problems . |
| 6 | It then falls away steeply across the limited war band to its low point between the guerrilla war and terrorism bands , where the frequency of such wars in the post-war period has demonstrated the greatest weakness in military deterrence — ‘ Davids ’ have found it all too easy to defy ‘ Goliaths ’ in these bands as the French and American defeats in Vietnam have shown so vividly . |
| 7 | The horror of the memory made it all too easy to choke and scream , but to her relief her performance was cut short in seconds as the door burst open , the light snapped on and she was in Penry 's arms , held close to his chest , and so glad to be there that not even her guilt could mar the joy of the moment . |
| 8 | We came into it all too late to make any difference . |
| 9 | And yet … is it all that easy to subtract language in the first place ? |
| 10 | Oh , all this was making it so much harder to refuse . |
| 11 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
| 12 | She was a little drunk ; the drink and the intimate darkness made it suddenly very easy to talk . |
| 13 | The longer you throw , the more , good boy , it 's so well hidden in the leaves , it 's exactly the same colour that 's the trouble this time of year , but no , life is a funny thing , and I find it personally very hard to believe that only two months ago , I mean what is it nine weeks ago , and I suddenly had an enormous view |
| 14 | Some people find it much more appealing to express probabilities in this multiplicative way . |
| 15 | Some teenage mothers get on fine at the usual antenatal classes , but others , like Sara and her friends , obviously do find it much more helpful to go somewhere with people in a similar situation so they can share experiences and gain a sense of friendship and solidarity . |
| 16 | He finds it much more effective to keep his distance from the in-tray . |
| 17 | This makes it much more plausible to condemn the malevolent shepherd , on Kant 's behalf , for he is employing means which are themselves inhumane , albeit for a humane end . |
| 18 | Longer exposure will produce both this effect and the associative version , making it much more difficult to see any decline in latent inhibition at the longer intervals . |
| 19 | The grant of wide discretionary powers makes it much more difficult to control the exercise of these powers by means of the doctrine of ultra vires . |
| 20 | Insufficient cleaning not only helps encourage pests , it also makes it much more difficult to control them . |
| 21 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 22 | That , far from producing better disciplined people , smacking makes it much more difficult to teach children how to behave . |
| 23 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 24 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 25 | To deny that there is single quantity that can be characterised as arousal makes it much more difficult to generalize the results of research using any particular measure or manipulation of arousal to other situations . |
| 26 | Firstly , a defendant who is remanded in custody is likely to find it much more difficult to prepare an adequate defence than one who is free on bail . |
| 27 | If there is no crisis , top managers will find it much more difficult to achieve fundamental change , since the need for it will be questioned . |
| 28 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 29 | Failure to obtain such consent will not only deprive the patient and the medical staff of this advantage , but will usually make it much more difficult to administer the treatment . |
| 30 | But his intervention has made it much more difficult to forecast the result . |