Example sentences of "it is [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 2 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 3 | After being on the receiving end of the challenge which brought Marsh 's late dismissal , he allowed Piatnitski to complete a night which showed the strides the home side must make if it is to re-establish itself as a European force . |
| 4 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 5 | We duly went back to Sun , which claims there is to a deal , just like it said , has been for months and that it is moving lots of product . |
| 6 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 7 | Have you forgotten how easy it is to delude yourself into believing you are in love ? |
| 8 | How much easier and publicly commendable it is to devote yourself to the parish , however demanding , than to a wife having a nervous breakdown at home . ’ |
| 9 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 10 | The more risks you have the more important it is to do something about your blood cholesterol level . |
| 11 | It is understood none of the three have been informed there is to be disciplinary hearing but a file is in the hands of Deputy Chief Constable Michael Argent who is in charge of force discipline . |
| 12 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 13 | Merseytravel , which operates the boats , strongly denies that it is steering them towards closure . |
| 14 | Merseytravel , which operates the boats , strongly denies that it is steering them towards closure . |
| 15 | And if the State denies us that right of individual choice then , although it might shower us with gifts , it is robbing us of our deepest , profoundest freedom , that upon which all other freedoms depend , and so the State , any State , which denies God 's ultimate gift must be opposed . ’ |
| 16 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 17 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 18 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 19 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 20 | The only way to make mathematics relevant to pupils who study it is to involve them in deciding what they want to learn and how they want to learn it . |
| 21 | It is to teach our young people about Him , it is to bring them to a conscious faith in Him so that in the heart and life of the Church , they can proclaim and witness to the faith of the ages , that Jesus is truly God and truly man , the Lord and saviour of us all . ’ |
| 22 | The Left would like a civilian , but if there is a candidate it is keeping him under wraps . |
| 23 | It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on . |
| 24 | The world 's biggest computer maker still needs this division as a supplier , but was failing to run it profitably ; so it is selling it to its managers and Clayton & Dubilier , leaving them to run it but still with a supply contract to IBM . |
| 25 | Now it is selling itself as the natural arena for developing companies in the new Länder . |
| 26 | Jesus Christ 's resurrection has to become our resurrection if it is to mean anything at all . |
| 27 | If a right to conscientious tax diversion can be established in this way , then , if it is to mean anything at all , it must be proof against standard utilitarian objections , for example , those relating to the cost of administering such a scheme . |
| 28 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 29 | But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author . |
| 30 | The English public knows little of de Pomiane 's work and it is missing something of great value . |