Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would it be to walk in the Dark Fields and journey in the Mountains of Twilight and swim in the underground Crimson Lakes … ? |
| 2 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 3 | It 's got nothing to do with mortality but it 's to do with the great beauty of the colour of raw meat ’ . |
| 4 | Well they say it 's to do with the annual . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's to do with the low notes . |
| 6 | It is to merge with the Royal Corps of Transport , the Royal Pioneer Corps , the Army Catering Corps and part of the Royal Engineers to form the Royal Logistic Corps . |
| 7 | Sequent Computer Corp confirmed last week reports that it is to move into the multi-processor PC ‘ superserver ’ business , basing its software strategy around Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming NT operating system ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 8 | An introductory leaflet claimed that : The aim of the Club is a simple one ; it is to help in the terrible urgent struggle for World Peace and a better social and economic order and against Fascism , by giving ( to all who are determined to play their part in this struggle ) such knowledge as will greatly increase their efficiency . |
| 9 | There is hope for Hector 's , but it has certainly been saved from fishing nets at the last hour , and will need all the protection and help it can get if it is to survive through the next century . |
| 10 | It seems to us to be an evolutionary survival factor : the more intelligent a species , the more likely it is to survive in the long term ; this is a reasonable hypothesis , but it can hardly be considered as any more than that . |
| 11 | There has to be an operational role or ‘ peg ’ , which provides the raison d'être for each regiment , if it is to survive in the harsh financial climate of our post-imperial era . |
| 12 | To record any kind of insert , you first have to decide where it is to come within the existing recording , that is the material which is to be over-recorded and therefore lost . |
| 13 | Sister stressed how important it is to speak to the troubled , to have time for listening and not to evade the issue . |
| 14 | But the main point of going up to it is to look at the Pyrenean Museum that has been created inside . |
| 15 | The only reliable cure for it is to sandpaper off the damaged surface of the plywood . |
| 16 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 17 | Pence and pounds than it was to deal with the old pounds , shillings and pence . |
| 18 | The commitment to a learning theory which explained all crime clearly required the specification of empirically identifiable learning processes if it was to progress beyond the simple assertion that crime is learned . |
| 19 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 20 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 21 | When he left Paris , it was to go to the Royal Marsden . |
| 22 | Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties . |
| 23 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 24 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 25 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 26 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 27 | It was also the meeting place of the Board of Guardians , whose duty it was to look after the poor , and the Patrington Union which was responsible for 27 parishes . |
| 28 | And so it was to prove in the late '60s and early ‘ 70s . |