Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 2 | But the company which makes it has been close to bankruptcy . |
| 3 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 4 | Most recently , however , it has been closest to Sun Microsystems on object-oriented technology , collaborating on the Distributed Objects Everywhere project . |
| 5 | Try to establish the background of any dog , however , because if it has been aggressive to children , for example it may not be suitable for your circumstances . |
| 6 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 7 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 8 | Otherwise , the freedoms that it implies are likely to atrophy through lack of use . |
| 9 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 10 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 11 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |
| 12 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 13 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 14 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 15 | It 's been surplus to requirements for 2 years , now that Rover has concentrated all its efforts on one site . |