Example sentences of "it be [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 2 | How could he let it be known to all and sundry that they were ‘ engaged ’ — how could he ? |
| 3 | Napoleon III let it be known to both men that a simple withdrawal of the candidature would suffice and that France would then be glad to consider the whole affair closed . |
| 4 | However , some sole practitioners indicated that they might accept the principle of prior approval if it were extended to all firms or at least all new firms in the process of setting up . |
| 5 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 6 | " It being stated to this Meeting that the Water of A-ruagh under Kilchoman House is at present impassable — and a total obstruction to Travelling until a Bridge is erected — … |
| 7 | " It being represented to this meeting that part of the Church yard of Kilnaughtan , facing the South E : or the sea is likely to be carried away by the Blowing of Sand and that several Coffins have been exposed " the meeting appoints a Committee to obtain any estimate for banking . |
| 8 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 9 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 10 | 1811 " It being known to this Meeting that two Parochial Schoolhouses are upon the way of being finished at Kilchoman and Kilmeny , and that it is proposed to build a third schoolhouse at Kildalton … stent themselves in the sum of £70 . " |
| 11 | ‘ It 's connected to all major stations throughout the city . ’ |
| 12 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 13 | But with the parson , the youngsters do a half day in the mill and a half day at his school , an' you would n't believe the difference it 's made to those little 'uns . |
| 14 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's happening to both of us ! ’ he bit out . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's coming to that in the end . ’ |
| 17 | So if you would like to prepare yourself responses and ready for a preparation , not preparation , presentation erm it 's coming to half past nine give you twenty minutes on that preparation , so if we can be back ten to ten this group please . |
| 18 | We will save sense ( a ) for the section on causatives , as it is related to that of make . |
| 19 | " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island . |
| 20 | Note that as the principal repayment reduces the loan outstanding so it is debited to that account . |
| 21 | where it is seen to this day |
| 22 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 23 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 24 | It is to attend to all his master 's needs . |
| 25 | It is flanked to either side by Tau and Sigma , both of which rival Antares in real luminosity but are considerably further away . |
| 26 | But God is generous , and it is granted to those who truly love him , and who have sought Christ beyond what men consider possible . |
| 27 | The language of section 20(1) ( iv ) ( b ) is wide enough to cover larceny by a bailee or part owner and embezzlement ; but it is a matter of dispute whether it does so or whether it is limited to those types of misappropriation , originally not criminal , for which the Act of 1901 was intended to provide . |
| 28 | At one point the path crosses the River Almond , and will eventually link up with the Almond Walkway once it is extended to this point . |
| 29 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Lilley should go to any city in this country and try to live with nothing … find how degrading it is to go to those places and ask for blankets and ask for food . ’ |