Example sentences of "it [is] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
| 2 | Well it 's to get a job , to improve your living standards . |
| 3 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 4 | It 's , it 's to have a piano |
| 5 | More often than not when I 'm called out it 's to find an owl has been poisoned , trapped or shot . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , it 's to buy a body , you see . ’ |
| 7 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 8 | Certainly a visit to the plains of Africa gives one an immediate impression of how conspicuous the stripes are and how easy it is to spot a herd of zebra in almost any terrain . |
| 9 | Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance . |
| 10 | In Glasgow , Grampian Holdings announced it is to close a pharmaceuticals plant , switching production and distribution to Leyland in Lancashire . |
| 11 | It lies south of Fomalhaut ; one way to find it is to prolong a line from Beta and Alpha Pegasi , in the Square of Pegasus , through Fomalhaut . |
| 12 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 13 | They learned about selling , pricing , negotiating , licensing , and how hard it is to turn a profit from R&D . |
| 14 | Just think how tangled up we are with pigs , how we love to hate ourselves as pigs , and how easy it is to turn a pig into a person . |
| 15 | You know , sir , how difficult it is to persuade a multitude to revolt of established authority ’ . |
| 16 | It is to transmit a signal that is , in a sense , part of pain behaviour . |
| 17 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 18 | To leave it is to lose a family , an adopted family if you like , and many feel empty afterwards , which is one reason so many become umpires or coaches or managers or whatever . |
| 19 | To arrive somewhere in it is to take a shortcut to celebrity ; park it , and you create an instant tourist attraction . |
| 20 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |
| 21 | For the consumer , it is to create a shopping experience that can be enjoyed ’ . |
| 22 | The purpose of the section is clear : it is to enable a 16-year-old to consent to medical treatment which , in the absence of consent by the child or its parents , would constitute a trespass to the person . |
| 23 | It is to reach a position where we are no longer assailed by doubts and uncertainties , where we know who we really are and where we are going . |
| 24 | Whenever the Holy Spirit comes more fully into a person 's experience , often with the evidence of speaking in tongues , it is to open a door to a fuller life as a worshipper . |
| 25 | Perpetual spinach and carrots will tolerate growing close together , but any flowering plant wants elbow room if it is to develop a stem strong enough to support the branches that will spring from it . |
| 26 | We talked about what a bitch of a job it is to change a radiator on a Mini . |
| 27 | It is to start a train of events Beyond your control . |
| 28 | I do not reject this out of hand ; but it is not my primary purpose here ; rather , it is to suggest a methodology which might enable us to gain insights into the functioning of the lyric poem per se , while always being mindful of the dangers of seeking generic overviews of historical phenomena . |
| 29 | Identifying indisputable winners , it suits Proportional representation : which system ? the great uncritical majority of the British electorate , inclined as it is to regard an election as some sort of sporting contest . |
| 30 | My Father 's House also demonstrates how hard it is to achieve a resolution outside patriarchal language and meaning . |