Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to remove you from the source of this , and that is the school you 're working in . |
| 2 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 3 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 4 | After being on the receiving end of the challenge which brought Marsh 's late dismissal , he allowed Piatnitski to complete a night which showed the strides the home side must make if it is to re-establish itself as a European force . |
| 5 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 6 | How much easier and publicly commendable it is to devote yourself to the parish , however demanding , than to a wife having a nervous breakdown at home . ’ |
| 7 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 8 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 9 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 10 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 11 | It is to teach our young people about Him , it is to bring them to a conscious faith in Him so that in the heart and life of the Church , they can proclaim and witness to the faith of the ages , that Jesus is truly God and truly man , the Lord and saviour of us all . ’ |
| 12 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |
| 13 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 14 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 15 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 16 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |