Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 2 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 3 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 4 | Erm , his son Nick , he 's a computer programmer for I C L , but I believe it 's now changed it 's name to D two B. Caroline 's at Essex University taking a Master 's Degree in Art , and Christopher 's still at school . |
| 5 | It is possible to attempt to justify poor practice by claiming that it 's response to parents wishes : silent classrooms brought about by severe discipline , numerous paper exercises completed to provide evidence of industry and antiquated forms of behaviour paraded as good manners are just some examples . |
| 6 | So mass is a sort of a bit like resistance , it 's resistance to acceleration . |
| 7 | It 's back to front , |
| 8 | So it 's oboes to clarinet , I have n't got the parts in here but I can if I n if someone is going to volunteer to clarinet , horns horns will stay at horns , but horn two presumably on trum what are the what are we going to give the trumpet to do ? |
| 9 | It is nicknamed Southyork because of it 's resemblance to R J Ewing 's ranch , Southfork from the soap opera , Dallas ! |
| 10 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 11 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |
| 12 | Well i in rugby when there 's trouble , it 's face to face say what you wan na say and smack them ! |
| 13 | Oh that 's it she said it 's Tuesday to Friday . |
| 14 | Umm it 's Monday to Friday with Grattan and Next together , we do actually umm deliver on Saturdays for just Next . |
| 15 | So it 's C to D , A major second . |
| 16 | It 's time to shit or bust . |
| 17 | So it 's producer to Traidcraft ? |
| 18 | Then obviously it 's statements to parents and depending on what happens there because the parent 's evening and I 've put |
| 19 | Sarti points out that industry , under Fascist rule , ‘ managed to return a degree of autonomy … preserve traditional prerogatives and broaden it 's access to government ’ . |
| 20 | The charity 's director David Bryer says by cutting Third World aid to help reduce public spending , the Government would be cutting off it 's nose to spite it 's face . |
| 21 | Skomer is the Dyfed Wildlife Trust 's largest nature reserve and as well as being the habitat of the Manx shearwaters it is home to puffins , guillemots , razorbills , kittiwakes , fulmars and lesser black-back gulls . |
| 22 | It is home to wildlife including hippos , crocodiles , monkeys , bucks , cheetahs , and several dozen species of birds , as well as a complex dune forest . |
| 23 | It is thanks to Bill Jordan , President of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Electrical Workers , and not Norman Willis , head of the TUC , that many own their shorter working week . |
| 24 | It is $7,300 to $8,600 . |
| 25 | It is $7,300 to $8,600 . |
| 26 | Surely in this day and age with so much emphasis on safety it is madness to surface roads like this . |
| 27 | As with so much work with old people , it is attention to detail which counts : it may make the difference between safety and danger , just as it will between comfort and discomfort . |
| 28 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
| 29 | That 's true and , indeed , it was tribute to Mario that though , like all drivers , he always adjusted the world about him to his own advantage , he also got along supremely well within any team . |
| 30 | It was goodbye to Patrick 's £30,000 and Andy 's half-million . |