Example sentences of "it be [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 2 | It 's to stop such thefts that Horsewatch has been formed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 6 | It 's not a question of how good it is to recycle several tons , it would be better still not to produce it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is to spend more resources on social and community facilities and to employ community liaison officers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | This sample illustrates how easy it is to create abstract patterns from familiar objects by using the various options available . |
| 12 | From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 … ‘ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The more extraneous variables involved , the harder it is to find matched subjects for many of the combinations ; |
| 30 | In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain 's economic problems . |