Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must then be updated in order to associate it with the name and issue number of the product package for which it is to provide a reference . |
| 2 | The user must then update the product using option 5.1.2 in order to associate it with the name and issue number of the product package for which it is to provide a reference . |
| 3 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 4 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 5 | A wonderful time for children , but not so good for thousands in cities , nor for the countrymen who lived at subsistence level , and never knew what it was to have a holiday . |
| 6 | Annie never knew what it was to have a pair of boots on her feet until she was ten . ’ |