Example sentences of "it [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complexity and quantity of these hypotheses tends to make it impractical to define the control regime fully in terms of the knowledge sources alone ; instead , the pattern of activity can be quite complex and unpredictable , with sources being invoked and suspended repeatedly on different parts of the problem , depending on the characteristics of the data being processed . |
| 2 | Before he could say anything Mrs Woodward exclaimed ‘ Is n't it strange to see a train at this time of night ? ’ |
| 3 | She said , ‘ Do you find it strange to see the Sun Chamber so empty , Captain ? ’ and Fergus thought : oho ! she is calling me Captain . |
| 4 | Familiar with his usual belligerent stance , Matthew found it strange to see the brash , self-confident businessman reduced to the kind of helplessness he was now displaying . |
| 5 | Various schemes are being proposed to make it possible to record a wider range off-air for educational purposes but it is a complicated business involving different independent TV and production companies , different unions and a copyright law that needs to be reformed . |
| 6 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 7 | This makes it possible to link the Machs with other JTAG devices for easier board testing . |
| 8 | Genetic engineering makes it possible to join the promoter of one gene to that of another . |
| 9 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 10 | As technology improves , thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard , new sources face increasingly more strict controls . |
| 11 | Is it possible to acquire a rider 's insurance only and if so , could you suggest which insurance would be best ? |
| 12 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 13 | The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation . |
| 14 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 15 | Congratulations , it is with immense gratitude that I am saying this ; I am fully aware of the dedication , the hard work ingenuity and imagination which has made it possible to celebrate a 40th Anniversary of the Medau Society . |
| 16 | Were it possible to take a pill after which the most perfect essays flowed from your pen , A level History courses would be completed more rapidly . |
| 17 | Is it possible to predetermine the types of conduct regarded as indecent ? |
| 18 | It is technical advance which makes it possible to create the world 's goods with the labour of fewer and fewer people . |
| 19 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 20 | A " yes " vote , he said , would " make it possible to put an end to the devastating processes taking place in our society [ i.e. the continuing rivalry and conflict between the republics and centre ] and make a resolute turn towards the restoration of normal conditions of life and work " . |
| 21 | Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ? |
| 22 | Is it possible to arrange the search space such that these conditions do not arise ? |
| 23 | It also makes it possible to watch the towplane instead of the ground and , as on a landing , looking well ahead reduces the tendency to over-control . |
| 24 | This facility is also open to the public making it possible to watch the enthusiasts and craftspersons at work . |
| 25 | This power of control made it possible to enact the Alkali Works Act of 1863 , the first act to provide a quantitative measure of pollution control . |
| 26 | We can challenge the monist by simply asking " How is it possible to translate a novel ? " |
| 27 | The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record . |
| 28 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 29 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 30 | Only by including this process is it possible to access every word in the lexicon . |