Example sentences of "it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sides are made of contrastingly coloured elasticated nylon with no foam fitted , the lack of kidney protection making it unsuitable for use in canoe polo . |
| 32 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 33 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 34 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 35 | I spelt it wrong that 's why I spelt it Spanish Nouveau riche either . |
| 36 | Patrick Milligan was careful to keep it hypothetical , mindful of the dark look on Patsy 's face . |
| 37 | About thirty papers on this work , much of it collaborative , appeared in the Biochemical Journal between 1920 and 1941 . |
| 38 | Critical reaction was generally favourable , although it was clear many writers found it confusing . |
| 39 | If you find it confusing to work cables from a written description , try following our step-by-step photographs above |
| 40 | She might have found it confusing that , in spite of having been married to the Father , it was God the Son who told her to treat Him as her wedded husband and kiss Him as much as she liked in bed , but Margery took things like that in her stride . |
| 41 | Negotiations went ahead but it all got a bit bizarre because at the time Barry 's manager was called Larry , his road manager was called Gary and his assistant was called Harry — so we had Barry , Larry , Gary and Harry — in fact , I think there were two Gary 's , just to make it confusing . |
| 42 | This is a simple enough idea but when the same structure is made to apply to government , labour relations , the administration of justice , or mystical communication according to context , we find it confusing . |
| 43 | ‘ Well , I find it confusing , ’ said Georgiades . |
| 44 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 45 | I actually found it I know me and you have discussed this earlier on and I , I , I did n't find it I found it confusing to be honest with you . |
| 46 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 47 | What makes it confusing is the moon is spinning round all the time . |
| 48 | Never have a , yeah it flipping does ! |
| 49 | They begin to become mouthpieces for an outside force , be it divine will , the necessities of plot , or authorial comment . |
| 50 | HERMS captures this associated data and adds to it spatial data generated in the CAD graphics data base . |
| 51 | Is it dishonest to laugh ? |
| 52 | The question might be phrased as : do you believe it dishonest for a person not to pay a fare which he believes he does not owe ? |
| 53 | Ah do n't like it wan bit … ’ |
| 54 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 55 | We just find it unbelievable . |
| 56 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 57 | What makes it unbelievable is the stilted , mannered tone of his writing and his wholly implausible description of how the Independent was launched and managed . |
| 58 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |
| 59 | Was it eleven ? |
| 60 | Eleven was it eleven ? |