Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though this is barely above the rate of inflation ( 6.1% ) , it stands ready to cut rates again . |
| 2 | It looks deep said Lindy . |
| 3 | The Welsh Office is similar although it has fewer devolved powers . |
| 4 | It includes three master/slave SBus slots , up to 128Mb internal memory , an Optal-Mechanical mouse and Type 5 Sparc keyboard . |
| 5 | In fact , it seems impossible to find examples of associatives which are non-restrictive , and this is not accidental . |
| 6 | If a relationship is clearly becoming either more established , or girls ( and boys ) are moving on to other sexual relationships , it seems logical to take precautions . |
| 7 | It seems reasonable to assume Fedorov will collect it , despite the danger . |
| 8 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 9 | It seems certain to blacken miles of pristine coastline , kill hundreds of birds and wreck lucrative shellfish grounds . |
| 10 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 11 | Sarai 's age : it seems surprising to find Sarai , at 65 , described as " very beautiful " ( 12:14 ) . |
| 12 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems possible to place France in the company of those countries — Germany and the US included — which at mid century experienced a ‘ railway Kondratieff ’ with emphatic growth-industry capabilities ’ ( Trebilcock , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | It seems fatuous to condemn companies like this for functioning as they must in the industrial and political context in which they find themselves . |
| 15 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |
| 16 | This disc is being sold in Britain , but it seems unlikely to win favour amongst large microcomputer manufacturers . |
| 17 | It seems easier to relate landforms in many deserts to earlier wetter periods than to present conditions . |
| 18 | It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis . |
| 19 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |
| 20 | Carbon is versatile in chemistry in the way that bricks are versatile in architecture : it seems able to give rise to an infinity of different molecules , just as bricks can be employed to create a garden path or a palace . |
| 21 | ‘ When you reach our age , you 'll know what it feels like to have frost in yer bones . ’ |
| 22 | It identifies all waste streams , their content , origin , routing , approved disposal methods and costs . |
| 23 | One view of the system is that although formally an international agreement , it serves more to allow governments a way of countering internal pressures on trade than to regulate international trade relations . |
| 24 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 25 | If , eventually , it becomes possible to increase productivity in this way , and such crop plants are developed on a large scale and for use in a wide variety of environments , it may help to reduce the impact of the enhanced greenhouse effect as well as increasing global food supplies . |
| 26 | In doing this she demonstrated the way in which , having once made contact with one 's feelings , it becomes possible to convert pain into creative action . |
| 27 | From time to time , it becomes necessary to reorganise information that has previously been learned and structured in a particular way . |
| 28 | For example , if distinctions are not clearly maintained between sounds ( phonemes ) and letters , it becomes impossible to say things such as : |
| 29 | If the calcium concentration is increased during incubation of hippocampal slices , then it becomes easier to induce LTP , while if calcium is removed from the medium in which the slices are bathed , then LTP can not develop . |
| 30 | In reality of course the effect of individual measures depends upon the combinations in which they are used , so it becomes important to test packages of improvements against each other and against control areas in which no changes have been made . |