Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 True , John makes it look easy , but , his tackle control is so good that it is obviously going to be difficult to emulate .
2 When you pay a cheque into your account no-one knows that it is definitely going to be paid .
3 The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not .
4 After all , the survey will have to be done at some stage and it is only going to be helpful to carry out a pilot if it tells the designer something he did not know .
5 What is the point of sending the article to learned referees if it is subsequently going to be altered without warning ?
6 It is by definition absurd , but it is also threatening to the stolid supremacy she exercises .
7 This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds .
8 The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders .
9 Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface .
10 Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end .
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