Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] to [noun sg] " 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 | So mass is a sort of a bit like resistance , it 's resistance to acceleration . |
| 3 | It 's back to front , |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well i in rugby when there 's trouble , it 's face to face say what you wan na say and smack them ! |
| 8 | It 's time to shit or bust . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is home to wildlife including hippos , crocodiles , monkeys , bucks , cheetahs , and several dozen species of birds , as well as a complex dune forest . |
| 12 | Surely in this day and age with so much emphasis on safety it is madness to surface roads like this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 16 | I think it was it was day to day living and er which in some ways could be more expensive than if |
| 17 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 18 | Robbie recognised that it was time to back down . |
| 19 | It was time to rope up . |
| 20 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 21 | Bodin raced in to smash it home … and it was time to party … |