Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ordination of women does not stand or fall on that , rather it is related back to our understanding of God and of men and women created and redeemed in that image . |
| 2 | There is nowhere to run to … it is your first night , Englishman , you have to learn of a new world , you have to be patient if it is to give up to you its secrets . |
| 3 | said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product . |
| 4 | Garston-based Village Group Tours claims it is owed up to £30,000 by the schools . |
| 5 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 6 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 7 | In winter it is given over to turnstones , purple sandpiper , oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds . |
| 8 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 9 | All guitars , from the cheapest acoustics to the top-of-the-range electrics are buzz-checked in soundproofed rooms ; their playing actions are measured and if any guitar falls below the proscribed tolerences it is sent off to be readjusted , perhaps even fret-dressed , before rechecking , packing and shipping . |
| 10 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ And sure , there is no harm in the other ranks having a wee drop before it is served up to the new Brigadier . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Someone takes five copies out of Sarajevo where it is faxed through to Geneva , phoned to Zagreb where it can be relayed by fax to London and it is also printed in Tuzla and Zenica . ’ |
| 13 | The common dolphin has a total of 180 teeth , which it uses to hold the captured meal fast while it is turned around to be swallowed head first . |
| 14 | It is hard to verify whether or not this is the dreadful fish it is made out to be or whether the tales are apocryphal , but what is certain is that the species itself does exist . |
| 15 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 16 | Local people know the history of their surroundings well enough , but visitors may not recognise land that has been reclaimed unless it is pointed out to them . |
| 17 | When it is pointed out to them that they have already been invited to say what they like , they become rather sheepish . |
| 18 | Denial : As with the primary illness , family members can not see their own addictive disease and may be exceedingly indignant if it is pointed out to them . |
| 19 | Satyāgraha is further described as an unending , relentless , dialectical quest for truth ; it is holding on to truth come what may . |
| 20 | This should be supported by the health service as part of the programme of development that any large organisation must adopt if it is to remain up to date and use its resources cost effectively . |
| 21 | It is kept up to date in the same way as the full system and is held by many libraries and other advice agencies . |
| 22 | The ion enters the membrane forming a complex with the ligand , and passes through to the pure water on the other side where it is oxidised back to Cu 2+ ( in other words , it loses the electron ) by dissolved oxygen from the air . |
| 23 | contribution , even though it is costing up to two and a half times more to collect than the revenue raised . |
| 24 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 25 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 26 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |
| 27 | But it is left up to the Customs and Excise to implement on-site inspection and seizure of animals . |
| 28 | But it is left up to the applications developers themselves to synchronise the directories by reading the various separate directories and then updating the StreetTalk database with any changes . |
| 29 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 30 | Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree . |