Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 How is it possible to exploit coral reefs for tourism , for example , but also use them as a food source ?
2 The rate of accumulation of biomass or NPP is expressed as weight of living matter/unit area/ unit time and recent work by the International Biological Programme ( IBP ) has provided more accurate estimates of NPP on a world scale for both continents and oceans , and this makes it possible to rank biome types according to NPP or present processes .
3 Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England .
4 The second edition of Introduction to High Energy Physics by D. H. Perkins requires considerable initial knowledge of quantum theory , but this does make it possible to use Feynmann diagrams immediately .
5 Very high levels of compression like this make it possible to transmit image data over ordinary dial-up , digital telephone lines rather than expensive , special broadband lines .
6 VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility .
7 Can I buy an off the shelf loom ; which side of the engine do I mount an alternator as I would like to raise it above the dynamo position which is too near any deep water ; is it possible to fit halogen headlamps .
8 In this document the case for the nationalisation of key industries was argued on practical grounds in each instance : thus ‘ public ownership of the fuel and power industries ’ would ‘ bring great economies in operation and make it possible to modernise production methods and to raise safety standards ’ ; ‘ public ownership of inland transport ’ would mean ‘ co-ordination of transport services by rail , road and canal ’ ; and the iron and steel industry would become efficient ‘ only if public ownership replaces private monopoly ’ .
9 This will reduce the variability of timings due to chance variations in overlap , and so make it possible to calculate run timings more accurately .
10 Is it possible to buy coconut ice-cream anywhere in the UK ?
11 Is it possible to organise state schools on the basis of a curriculum which is built around the age , aptitude and abilities of individual children ?
12 Is it possible to change school science in this fashion and still preserve the essential character of science itself ?
13 Yeah the question was , Is it possible to store CAD information on the database ?
14 Is it appropriate to include core skills ?
15 Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't
16 Sir Leicester may think it appropriate to keep Mr Rouncewell waiting , ‘ opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flight of ironmasters ’ , but it is his housekeeper 's son who now wields the moral authority , for he has come to remove his future daughter-in-law , the lady 's maid Rosa , from Lady Dedlock 's charge because he thinks that position is unsuitable .
17 Its physical manoeuvrability makes it easy to demonstrate syllable structure or to emphasise tricky bits .
18 This in turn makes it easy to move light fittings around : many low-voltage lights are mounted on spikes with this in mind .
19 Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years .
20 Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions .
21 Anyone who is antibody positive will find it impossible to get life assurance , should they apply for it .
22 Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped .
23 Why is it rude to slap people Emma ?
24 ‘ I find it hard to believe Master Lorimer could be responsible for your condition , ’ droned the butler .
25 Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works .
26 Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding .
27 Readers interested in the shellfish-collecting side of life at the site might find it helpful to read Elizabeth Voigt 's chapter alongside Betty Meehan 's fascinating Shell Bed to Shell Midden , a book newly published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra on the role of shellfish in the life of a group of Australian Aborigines who live in Arnheim Land in Northern Territory .
28 More important , she found it fascinating to put Monsieur de Levantiére 's advice into practice .
29 The Tories have stopped short of making trade union membership illegal but is it legal to punish trade union members financially through selective redundancies , and as collective agreements are cancelled through offering inferior individual contracts and withholding pay rises ?
30 Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended .
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