Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open . |
| 2 | The holding company , General Synod , files a separate set of accounts , as do the Church Commissioners , whose job it is to manage the greater part of the Church 's historical property . |
| 3 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 4 | In the majority , however , this is the task of the account executive , whose job it is to take the client 's brief , ask the appropriate questions , and translate the brief into clear objectives for the creative team to work to . |
| 5 | After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them in the great baggage train . |
| 6 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 7 | whose job it is to make the decision about how to deal with it . |
| 8 | Once again , the presence of an adult to help keep things going will make it easier for the cameraman , whose job it is to cover the most interesting bits of action wherever it may take place within the four walls of the room . |
| 9 | The fashion industry has a complicated early warning network of expert consultants who job it is to identify the sure commercial looks of the future . |
| 10 | In a traditional ‘ non-contact ’ competition without padding or restrictions , save that the opponents must never actually touch , each bout lasts roughly three minutes and is overseen by three judges whose job it is to study the accuracy and intended force of each blow . |
| 11 | He said there was a person , famous throughout the land , whose job it was to visit the halls where films were being shown and to describe the films to the local people . |
| 12 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ said Lucifer 's daughter ( whose job it was to foot the ladder ) . |
| 14 | He 's not from our way but John Reynolds of Swindon is … and he 's the man who 's job it was to string the champion 's rackets … here 's Erika Barnes to serve |
| 15 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |
| 16 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 17 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
| 18 | At the Health Complexes they would be distributed to the inpatient and outpatient departments and also to field workers whose job it was to distribute the packets to anyone who required them in his/her village . |
| 19 | We have branches in every part of Wales whose aim it is to protect the local environment , while encouraging sustainable forms of development . |
| 20 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 21 | Joshua , whose conceit it was to prefer the old gods to the new , took no part in the singing . |
| 22 | These include forms or production and commerce and the demands of profit , the interests of and constraints on manufacture , design , marketing and advertising , whose role it is to create the images of industrial goods in relation to specified target populations , and the interests of and constraints on the consumer population , who use and in their turn manipulate the meaning of these forms through differential selection , placement , use and association . |
| 23 | Endless afternoon teas when we discussed giving mugs of hot chocolate to needy children at Christmas time or whose turn it was to do the flowers in the Maternity Hospital . |
| 24 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 25 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 26 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |
| 27 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 28 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 29 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |
| 30 | His approximate area of operation then became known to Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock , whose responsibility it was to guard the southern tip of South America . |