Example sentences of "[det] [conj] it [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't mind as long as we make I mean I prefer this because it is to order , we do n't make them to stock . |
| 2 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 3 | His emotional and intellectual development in Aden was such that it was to lead him inevitably back to France , back to emotional security with Rirette , and back to the political and social struggle from which he had escaped in a state of total disorientation a few months earlier . |
| 4 | However , unless you have some knowledge of the subject , it is just as easy to pay too much as it is to pick up a bargain . |
| 5 | So the it should be qu easier to sort these than it is to sort those . |
| 6 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
| 7 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 8 | The public domain , therefore , can do more than it is to secure the active citizenship of individuals . |
| 9 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |