Example sentences of "it [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature . |
| 2 | However , it was not at all convinced that a slight penetration with one finger could be regarded as an aggravated assault and yet considered it impractical to distinguish between different forms of digital penetration . |
| 3 | In case anyone is worried about the cost of holing-in-one , Shuhei Send the Kyoei Fire and Marine Insurance Company in Tokyo , made it possible to insure against over-spending in celebrating such a feat . |
| 4 | This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork . |
| 5 | Regan declares her love to be identical with Goneril 's , only that she has understated it ( we had scarce thought it possible to go beyond Goneril ) : To claim that your love for your father exceeds all the joys which can be derived from the senses — with your newly wedded husband standing by — is to claim too much . |
| 6 | This sectoral approach makes it possible to take into account the redistribution of IT production activities between firms that may cut across existing industrial categories ( eg between manufacture and scientific services ) and its human resource implications . |
| 7 | The manager at both secondary- and primary-school level , would , when that development is complete , find it possible to adapt to school use recommendations about the wholesale management and regearing of both policy and practice which is needed in FE in order to create a comprehensive setting for the introduction of new vocational qualifications ( Haffenden and Brown 1989 ) . |
| 8 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 9 | I am grateful that , on this occasion at least , the hon. Gentleman has found it possible to welcome at least some of the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 10 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 11 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 12 | To make it possible to deal with very fast moving , or potentially violent , events . |
| 13 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 14 | The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited . |
| 15 | Is it possible to improve off road driving and what are the biggest possible tyres ? |
| 16 | Only if the language is finite is it possible to state with certainty that any given sentence belongs to the language . |
| 17 | and did ‘ not consider it possible to state in any grater detail what form this link should take ’ ( see Annex I to the Commission 's reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) . |
| 18 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 19 | Nor is it possible to say with confidence how much of the increase is due to melting glaciers and how much to thermal expansion . |
| 20 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 21 | Or , further , is it possible to incorporate in the framework of the state itself some provision or institution by which a governmental act or command ultra vires may be declared to be such , and subjects therefore exempted from its operation and released from any legal obligation to observe or obey it ? |
| 22 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | The practice can occur in actual business meetings where they set aside some time to make it possible to reflect on their actions and to correct them . |
| 24 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 25 | It may still be necessary to avoid certain food items or undergo other forms of treatment , but it should speed the body 's recovery , and make it possible to return to a more normal diet sooner . |
| 26 | Such measures are thought to make it possible to eliminate through traffic from Greatham apart from a maximum of six days a year the MoD would still require the closure of Woolmer Road . |
| 27 | This should make it possible to see at last what are the key influences when supply as well as demand-side elements have been included . |
| 28 | As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs . |
| 29 | Developing Community rules will make it possible to comply with requirements in such areas as company law , securities listing , and insider dealing , that are either uniform in the different member states , or at any rate are regarded as being equivalent , instead of complying with a variety of different rules in different member states . |
| 30 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |