Example sentences of "[conj] it is [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 2 | The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings . |
| 3 | The third problem with the existing legislation is that it is confined to gold and silver only , giving archaeologists no control over accompanying objects in other materials which are often of equal archaeological importance . |
| 4 | ‘ We do nothing , except make sure that it is drawn to friend Cawthorne 's attention . ’ |
| 5 | Every time an ATP molecule is used to provide energy , a phosphate bond is broken , and it is converted to ADP , or adenosine diphosphate . |
| 6 | It collapses onto the ground , which happens to be a deep pile of manure , and it lies there until it is trampled to death by the other cows which are milling continually around it . |
| 7 | Does Labour pledge that , if it is elected to government , no one will wait any length of time for an operation ? |
| 8 | European funding can be lavish but it is tied to cooperation with public bodies . |
| 9 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |
| 10 | Firstly , the topping up mechanism while it is geared to ability to pay is the only own resource precisely defined in this way . |
| 11 | I think we need to say more about this , because while it is related to secularisation and is partly a direct result of laicisation , there is more to it than that . |
| 12 | However , some calculations on the visual input have already been performed in the retina , before it is passed to area 17 . |
| 13 | Is n't the truth of Canguilhem 's claim that philosophy is on ‘ the side of the people and of the born non-specialists ’ ( 1980 : 49 ) , even more debatable , when it is applied to psychoanalysis of any kind ? |
| 14 | I can say unequivocally and without a shadow of doubt that the Conservative party has no intention whatever , when it is returned to office , to means test the basic retirement pension . |
| 15 | While you are experimenting with the zoom , note how much easier it is to hold the picture in the viewfinder steady when it is set to wide-angle . |
| 16 | As the critic Ernest Newman wrote : ‘ Music can become dance when it is subjected to repetition , multiplication and abstraction using steps , poses and gestures with pattern and expression to appeal to both the eye and the intellect ’ ( see also page 47 ) . |