Example sentences of "it be [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if they increase their output alright that will displace imports alright , so protectionism leads to self sufficiency and by and large self sufficiency is protectionism 's raison d'etre , that 's why it 's there right it 's to increase domestic output of this particular product . |
| 2 | A leading brewery in the Fox F M area has confirmed it 's to offer financial help to pub managers faced with high Poll Tax bills . |
| 3 | And although Jesus himself remains to a significant degree elusive , it is as possible to deduce plausible information about him as it is to deduce such information about Arthur , or Robin Hood . |
| 4 | The way to do it is to treat that murder in as formal a manner as you can . |
| 5 | A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’ |
| 6 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 7 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children |
| 8 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children . |
| 9 | The profession will have to take positive steps if it is to make any progress in bridging the expectation gap . |
| 10 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 11 | Can I , at this point , reiterate how important it is to have this type of insurance cover if you are taking private classes . |
| 12 | Propaganda , if it is to have any effect at all , must have some basis in truth . |
| 13 | The expedient of the withholding of manifestations of love from the very young child amounts to the instilling of the first tiny measure of fear , and fear , used in conjunction with reward provides the fundamental tools which the adult population must have if it is to maintain steady progress towards the civilisation it desires . |
| 14 | Experience in the United States of America , where legislative history has for many years been much more generally admissible than I am now suggesting , shows how important it is to maintain strict control over the use of such material . |
| 15 | It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact . |
| 16 | Norway has confirmed that it is to resume scientific whaling in April and commercial whaling in May or June [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 17 | Processes such as DVI , for example , will need to improve radically if it is to provide acceptable video at HDTV standards . |
| 18 | The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis . |
| 19 | It was to resist this wave of caesarism that Jovellanos pressed for the summoning of a general Cortes which would represent the nation against the generals . |
| 20 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 21 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 22 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 23 | Li Yuan watched the Marshal while he talked , barely referring to the folder in his lap , unless it was to take some diagram from it and hand it to Tolonen . |
| 24 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |
| 25 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 26 | Parreira , Gilmar , Calazans and many others maintain the championship has enormous potential if it was to run all year with matches just on Sundays , as in Italy . |
| 27 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 28 | Such case as the defence were able to make depended , like the defence in some of the cases cited above , almost entirely on the defendant 's credibility if it was to have any prospect of success and therefore the misdirection was material . |
| 29 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |
| 30 | Delightful as it was to meet pleasant company in such an unlikely place , I very badly wanted to exchange our fell citations on the other side of this rock . |