Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first there are further instructions about how the Passover is to be celebrated , who may join in , and where it is to take place . |
| 2 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 3 | It 's more expensive to manufacture things here in Bolivia than it is to buy contraband . |
| 4 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 5 | It 's easier to prevent the escape of the internal noise which you create in your own home , and which is liable to annoy your neighbours , than it is to prevent noise entering your house from outside or from next door . |
| 6 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 7 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 8 | So it 's , if you 're overtime is at the grade C level , or the workload is at the grade C level , then you 're bet it 's cheaper to get overtime done than it is to get temps . |
| 9 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 10 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 11 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 12 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | UPJOHN , the maker of the controversial injectable contraceptive , Depo-Provera faces much more than the unspecified objections of health minister , Kenneth Clarke , if it is to reverse Clarke 's decision to ban the use of the drug as a long-term contraceptive in Britain . |
| 15 | Rechem believes the results to be unscientific , and under the new agreement will be able to append its own commentary to the council 's existing document , especially if it is to form part of a submission to the European Commission . |
| 16 | If it is to form part of science , an hypothesis must be falsifiable . |
| 17 | It does so directly in connection with the fundamental constitutional requirement that , if it is to retain office , the Executive must retain the confidence of the House . |
| 18 | Accordingly , a bidder which is a newly-incorporated or re-registered public company to be used as a vehicle for the takeover should be careful not to contravene s104 if it is to acquire shares in the target from its own subscribers or members ( eg in a management buy-out ) . |
| 19 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 20 | This bacterium has a battery of three genes ( G 1 , G 2 , G 3 in the figure ) , which code for proteins ( P 1 , P 2 , P 3 ) needed by the cell if it is to use galactosides ( energy-rich compounds which may or may not be present in the surroundings ) . |
| 21 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 22 | What are the most basic areas of research which the Church needs to undertake if it is to take growth seriously ? |
| 23 | This will require leadership and generous resourcing if it is to produce results . |
| 24 | Again , however , many things can then happen to it ; if it is to produce TL , the electron must recombine with another type of defect , and the recombination process must produce energy in the form of light . |
| 25 | With only 2,000 breeding pairs left in the US , reintroduction programmes are seen as vital if it is to escape extinction as a result of local disasters . |
| 26 | This is increased if the picture is systematic , that is , if it is to show members of close species . |
| 27 | It is not easy to achieve this effect if they do not take into account the dimension and spacing of the steps as well as their particular quality , which must be in tune with the music if it is to make sense . |
| 28 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 29 | Achieving a standstill is vital for Heron if it is to make headway in rescheduling its debt . |
| 30 | Its processes must be open if it is to win understanding and acceptance . |