Example sentences of "it [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible just to have a glass water ? |
| 2 | You may very well find it possible yet to send them home again in the very minted pieces in which they left home with the lady . ’ |
| 3 | This makes it possible only to use one part if there is limited time available . |
| 4 | Is it possible still to buy this kind of edging , and if so , can you please supply details of the manufacturer or stocklist ? |
| 5 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 6 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 7 | The pier has friends — what pier does n't these days — but is it strong enough to withstand the seemingly inexorable demographic tides sweeping through the town ? |
| 8 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 9 | If the pupils are bored the should make it interesting enough to keep their interest . |
| 10 | Simpson had broadcast a similar report nine months earlier , but the FO had dismissed it as media hype and not considered it interesting enough to follow up . |
| 11 | No longer is it adequate simply to maintain discharges within consent levels : now companies have to worry about environmental audits and integrated pollution control ( IPC ) . |
| 12 | Is it appropriate sometimes to finish the drama session with a game or an exercise which calms and focuses ? |
| 13 | The Hainges used a special sports turf to give it its clipped , fresh-green look and make it hard-wearing enough to withstand their two children ( Martin , eight , and Carmen , 12 ) . |
| 14 | Robyn was about to say , ‘ The Government , ’ when she saw the trap : Wilcox would find it easy enough to argue that the Government had not been troubled by the strike . |
| 15 | United found it easy enough to open Wolves up , but they could n't quite finish them off . |
| 16 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 17 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 18 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 19 | So that 's why we we make the advert curious enough or enough curiosity in it , no vagueness I suppose we make it vague enough to say I 've got to phone in . |
| 20 | Is it serious enough to bring down John Major in the way the Poll Tax brought down Margaret Thatcher ? |
| 21 | Their work made it impossible henceforth to invoke the work of Althusser in Britain without reference to the problems which they had articulated . |
| 22 | Not only is it impossible now to tell what the figures for the future will actually mean for the service , but even the informed observer or MP can not tell what has been happening . |
| 23 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 24 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 25 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 26 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 27 | He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement . |
| 28 | I find it hard enough to do descriptions of today . |
| 29 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 30 | I found it hard therefore to understand why she should act so far outside her own political ideology . |