Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when a batch has completed one process can it be moved to the next . |
| 2 | if it is accepted that biotechnology is here to stay , how can it be controlled to the best advantage ? |
| 3 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 4 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 5 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 6 | It 's very , very hard to fault this guitar ; it looks superb , it 's made to the highest possible standards and it also works a treat , combining near-total fingerboard access with a bright , responsive , almost classical sound . |
| 7 | If it 's left to the free market these things will not progress fast enough . |
| 8 | So Steve and myself are er have done a done a bid that we should know today whether or not it 's going to the main group , and if it goes to the main group , there 's a great chance it 'll be accepted . |
| 9 | Now it 's going to the main menu . |
| 10 | In the towns they drink wine and liqueurs , but we ca n't do that in the villages … the result is that the gents can drink , but it 's forbidden to the lower classes . ’ |
| 11 | It is a Germanic breed , known for the production of Munster cheese , though its milk yields are rather low , averaging only 2,500kg at 3.7 per cent butterfat , and it is related to the Black Forest cattle of Germany . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 13 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 14 | But for the animal there is no escape ; it is condemned to the natural expressions in perpetuity , and the language-game we use of it is appropriately minimal . |
| 15 | It is diverted to the alien nest where it drops into the cuckoo 's mouth the food that had been destined for its own young . |
| 16 | First of all the LIFESPAN Manager must find out which LIFESPAN users , in addition to himself , wish to access LIFESPAN information once it is transferred to the selected database . |
| 17 | But when it is transferred to the printed page , where it is read and not heard , all the clues necessary for following the exchange have to be extracted from other sources in the text . |
| 18 | The genius of our constitution is that it is geared to the real world . |
| 19 | In John Pope-Hennessey 's 1965 catalogue of the Kress Collection it is assigned to the second quarter of the sixteenth century |
| 20 | It is given to the first child , through no fault of its own , to disrupt what has been an exclusive , reciprocal relationship as no subsequent child has power to do . |
| 21 | Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time . |
| 22 | The most newsworthy and well-written release will not achieve any coverage if it is sent to the wrong outlet . |
| 23 | For part of the day it is pounded by water and for the rest of the time it is exposed to the desiccating heat of the sun or the bitter cold of night . |
| 24 | When art is brought into line with everyday life and individual experience , it is exposed to the same risks , the same unforeseeable laws of chance , the same interplay of living forces . |
| 25 | An idea of the magnitude of this quantity can be obtained if it is compared to the total population of New Jersey ( 7 344 000 ) or Ecuador ( 7 814 000 ) , or if it is realized that 7 602 138 seconds make 90 days and 10 hours . |
| 26 | It is made to the usual high Wolfcraft standards using thick steel for the bench table and a cast alloy housing for the disc . |
| 27 | After this committee , the Bill returns to the House to be read a third time , after which it is transmitted to the other House and , if successful there , submitted for the Royal Assent . |
| 28 | Members using FTA 's Freightcheck service can be assured that it is operated to the highest standards and specifically ensures compliance with the operator licence obligations . |
| 29 | A large proportion of the advertising in these markets , is , inevitably , in some sense , ‘ reminder ’ advertising — which , again , should not need much in the way of information , since it is preaching to the converted . |
| 30 | From the Persian word kelley ( head ) , it is applied to the main or " head " carpet in the traditional arrangement . |