Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be stated at this point that it is not intended here to suggest that there is a conspiracy on the part of doctors to deprive patients of their rights , or that doctors act out of ill will . |
| 2 | It is not thought enough to ban unofficial political activity , institute press censorship and monopolise the means of communication , since at most these measures serve a negative purpose . |
| 3 | The grass is then sown and it is periodically burnt thereafter to improve palatability . |
| 4 | The Castilian fleet , based in the Cantabrian coast ports , was perhaps the most professional and well-organized navy in western Europe in the 1360s and 1370s , and it was well placed both to attack English shipping on the route between England and Bordeaux and to harry the south coast of England . |
| 5 | It was even prepared publicly to bury the Comintern if " Social Fascism " could be buried with it . |
| 6 | It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal . |
| 7 | The first design of British reactor , the Magnox , had an even more direct link to the atomic bomb : it was originally planned primarily to produce plutonium . |
| 8 | Its original preferred candidate was Ryzhkov , but fears were expressed at the meeting that if elected Ryzhkov would cede the post to Gorbachev , and it was therefore decided also to nominate Vadim Bakatin , the USSR Internal Affairs Minister . |