Example sentences of "it [is] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to stop such thefts that Horsewatch has been formed . |
| 2 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 3 | RATNERS , the jewellery chain whose profits plunged after its boss branded one of its lines ‘ total crap ’ , announced yesterday it is to close 180 shops . |
| 4 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 5 | It 's not a question of how good it is to recycle several tons , it would be better still not to produce it . |
| 6 | The strength and potential of the modern concern for curriculum development lies in the fact that we now realise how important it is to undertake these processes , and in a logical sequence . |
| 7 | It is to spend more resources on social and community facilities and to employ community liaison officers . |
| 8 | Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all . |
| 9 | The controversy that has surrounded Brenner 's results illustrates how difficult it is to draw firm conclusions about the role of any one factor , such as unemployment , on a state as loosely defined as ‘ health ’ . |
| 10 | This sample illustrates how easy it is to create abstract patterns from familiar objects by using the various options available . |
| 11 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 12 | However difficult it is to measure short-term effects of library instruction , it is far more difficult to measure the long-term effects of the instruction given . |
| 13 | Easy though it is to criticize Positive Images ' theoretical short-comings , the fact is that this was almost the only group in the country that was addressing these issues at all . |
| 14 | The choice of economic incentive ultimately depends upon the purpose of this strategy , whether it is to reduce specific types of pollution generally or in given geographical areas , to reallocate funds for investment in pollution control or to compensate victims of air pollution . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The legislature 's vote was an embarrassment for Mr Kravchuk , but it has left Ukraine with a paralysed government at a time when the country must react swiftly if it is to survive increased prices for Russian fuel . |
| 17 | A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions . |
| 18 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 19 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 20 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
| 21 | The point may be stressed , for experience has shown how important it is to have these volumes always on hand for cross-referencing with later works , or providing new ideas for lines of investigation . |
| 22 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 23 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 24 | To buy food for a day at a time because there is no pantry in which to store it is to meet higher bills at corner stores than would be involved in larger purchases from supermarkets . |
| 25 | ‘ To migrate , ’ Salman Rushdie once wrote , ‘ is certainly to lose language and home , to be defined by others , to become invisible , or even worse , a target ; it is to experience deep changes and wrenches in the soul … ‘ |
| 26 | We have already touched on the importance of user interfaces ( see 1.4 ) and have emphasised how crucial it is to provide lay users of multimedia systems with interfaces that offer extreme friendliness without sacrificing power for simplicity . |
| 27 | Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike . |
| 28 | The more extraneous variables involved , the harder it is to find matched subjects for many of the combinations ; |
| 29 | In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems . |
| 30 | In most cases when computers are purchased by enterprises , it is to run administrative systems like bookkeeping . |