Example sentences of "it [adj] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph . |
| 2 | Is it possible to assign one function to each , or are some of mixed function ? |
| 3 | Many young women find it possible to love two men simultaneously . |
| 4 | Is it possible to love two men at once ? |
| 5 | The naming is crucial , for not only does this make it possible to contrast one kind of relationship with another , it also allows the group as a collectivity to determine what the " proper " behavioural concomitants of the relationship should be . |
| 6 | Erm can you is it possible to get twos rather threes . |
| 7 | They may differ from country to country , as may the level of pollution deemed acceptable , but there are common elements which make it possible to distinguish four types of strategies : ( 1 ) air quality management , ( 2 ) emission standards , ( 3 ) economic , and ( 4 ) cost-benefit . |
| 8 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 9 | But no planning regulation may be passed , no law affecting the education of the young or the use of the highway , and so on , which will make it easier to realize one conception of the good or more difficult to pursue another . |
| 10 | Resource limitations may make it impossible to follow one project with the next one on the list , and projects must then be resourced in an order that makes efficient use of the resources available . |
| 11 | Resource limitations may make it impossible to follow one project with the next one on the list , and projects must then be resourced in an order that makes efficient use of the resources available . |
| 12 | Having sifted through the finalists ( Madonna , the Prince of Wales , Ted Turner and Liz McColgan were among them ) it found it impossible to separate two . |
| 13 | • If you find it hard to eat one chocolate or biscuit without devouring the whole packet , but an individually wrapped serving . |
| 14 | One would find it hard to imagine two more utterly different aspects of the same country than the southern and northern coasts of Spain . |
| 15 | But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another . |
| 16 | Although it was not a linear , chronological development and neat labels as always ‘ tidy up ’ a complex phenomenon , I find it helpful to distinguish two currents : a ‘ dominance ’ current and a ‘ difference ’ current . |
| 17 | IS IT BETTER TO EAT ONE LARGE MEAL A DAY ? |
| 18 | Many students find it useful to spend two or three minutes drawing a key words map for the questions they intend to answer . |
| 19 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 20 | Ethernet support makes it feasible to use 3270 and ASCII terminals to access both traditional hierarchical SNA environments and TCP/IP environments using a single network , IBM says . |
| 21 | Even if an installation finds it convenient to use one of the smaller operating systems for much of its work , it may he possible to switch to an operating system that provides the extra facility to handle variable-length records , just for those files that need it . |
| 22 | ‘ You say you do n't find it difficult to multiply one number by another , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 23 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |
| 24 | The keyboard duet had only recently become a viable medium , since the restricted compass of earlier instruments made it difficult to seat two players at one keyboard . |
| 25 | If , after reading the advice in Chapter 9 , you decide to keep to a very strict calorie intake of just 850 to 1,000 calories daily , you will find it very difficult to achieve the upper levels of the fibre recommendation and might even find it difficult to consume 35 grams of fibre daily . |
| 26 | And worse , we had recently found it necessary to replace two of the three giggling girls who had sadly fallen victim to the Spanish flu epidemic , and sack the third for incompetence . |
| 27 | The differentiation went one stage further because Galileo found it necessary to distinguish two senses in which a biblical text could be construed . |
| 28 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
| 29 | Some newly-weds find it beneficial to have one small piece of Romans 12:21 ready to hand as an emergency procedure : 'Overcome evil with good . ' |
| 30 | Is it realistic to teach 3 year olds number concepts ? |