Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , they relate to sustainability — can the ideal structure , in this case a monopoly , be maintained by the established firm , or will it be vulnerable to entry ? |
| 2 | Would it be safe to practice ? |
| 3 | If every time a directive is mistaken , i.e. every time it fails to reflect reason correctly , it were open to challenge as mistaken , the advantage gained by accepting the authority as a more reliable and successful guide to right reason would disappear . |
| 4 | It 's conducive to thought . ’ |
| 5 | It 's due to air being too warm when pollination occurs . |
| 6 | I have my doubts erm in , in that erm certainly not within one nation erm I , I agree with you entirely that it 's contradictory to Marxism in that erm what happened in erm with Mao was that erm he turned away from any internationalist socialist concept . |
| 7 | Which is why it 's better to sort of hey now , hang on , do n't put another B squared in , cos you 've done that . |
| 8 | Well I sometimes do when , er , if , I have a tendency when it 's , when it 's right to praise instantly when it 's right and when it 's wrong . |
| 9 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 10 | Personally , when facing an Empire army , I never advance into the muzzle of a volley gun ; too often it 's tantamount to suicide . |
| 11 | Trying to stay sane is a delicate balancing act : it 's easy to overbalance , particularly if you 're pushed . |
| 12 | ‘ If you tell her , it 's halfway to Cropper and Blackadder — and they have much more punch than she has , I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | However , I would suggest that the new owner of a ribber does without a rib transfer carriage for a while ( unless arthritis is a problem ) as it 's good to practice transferring stitches using the rib transfer tool . |
| 14 | And there int one on this one here and it 's nearest to school ! |
| 15 | It 's exclusive to club 18–30 , it 's near the centre of town , it has a great pool and sunbathing area , a waiter-service restaurant with a special buffet breakfast and a reputation for excellent food , a friendly bar serving a good range of snacks . |
| 16 | ‘ Quiet ! ’ snapped Mum , ‘ Or it 's early to bed for you . ’ |
| 17 | It 's impervious to water and virtually indestructible . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother , it 's ten to midnight ! ’ called Sally from the doorway , and Liz , looking around the confusion she had summoned into being , the scattered earth , the scattered people , the murmuring , the singing , the clustering , thought yes , this was a party , yes , this was living rather than not living , this was permitted , this was planned disorder , this was cathartic , this was therapeutic , this was admired misrule . |
| 19 | So many are expected to attend tomorrow 's budget meeting that it 's open to ticket holders only , among them senior teachers . |
| 20 | But money is short and it 's open to question whether they will take us on . ’ |
| 21 | The thing that really pisses me off is the hypocrisy — these guys all rant on about how they 're so shat upon because they 're black but it 's OK to shit on women . |
| 22 | It 's a kind of exam — and it 's important to school yourself to be good at exams . |
| 23 | I 'm happy to profile for someone , it 's important to feedback responses to people and get them back . |
| 24 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 25 | Gouache is the medium Mary uses for her work , it is akin to watercolour but always provides the essential opaque quality . |
| 26 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 27 | It 's got to be their best choice erm it is closer to home , with no worries about overseas travel erm plus the backing of every major Tourist Board means they 're guaranteed quality . |
| 28 | It avoids stereotype , it is closer to reality , and though less comforting perhaps , it is much more interesting , and in the end more profound . |
| 29 | This is the position known as materialism ; it is opposed to idealism which , in a broad sense , sees the basis of human existence as abstract spiritual concepts whose origin can not be explained by natural circumstances . |
| 30 | When ‘ positivism ’ is so construed , it is opposed to realism and insists that theory is a guide to prediction rather than a source of substantive hypotheses about what could not , even in principle , be observed . |