Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chi Ophiuchi is an irregular variable with a range of from 4 to 5 ; it lies close to Phi ( 4.3 ) which makes a good comparison star . |
| 2 | It lies close to Canopus , and there are only two stars above the fourth magnitude : Alpha ( 3.3 ) and Beta ( 3.8 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps it owes that to influences from its earlier history . |
| 4 | Aye , it does , then it says welcome to Humberside . |
| 5 | It 's passable , he says , and it leads direct to Tmjillo . |
| 6 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 7 | ‘ To me it sounds similar to youth training schemes — a disgrace . |
| 8 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 9 | A further consequence is , as Bogdanor states in ‘ Britain : the Political Constitution ’ in Bogdanor , Constitutions in Democratic Politics , p. 56 , that ‘ the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ can not in Britain mean contrary to law ; instead it means contrary to convention , contrary to some understanding of what it is appropriate to do . |
| 10 | Because it lacks any tangible goals for the delivery and outcome of health care , it remains vulnerable to accusations of crude cost-curbing . |
| 11 | It remains open to claimants and the adjudication officer to cite unreported cases , but advance notice of their intention to do so is required . |
| 12 | But it remains prone to generalizations : ‘ we share a common root as women … capitalism , imperialism and racism are symptoms of male supremacy — sexism ’ ( 1970 : xxix , xxxix ) . |
| 13 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 14 | Say it rotates left to right about the vertical axis , as a line segment reaches the right extreme , it is removed . |
| 15 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |