Example sentences of "it is [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 2 | They simply share the belief that it is not going to be possible to explain behaviour adequately if mental processes are identified with the contents of conscious awareness . |
| 3 | Whatever future peace Lebanon can obtain , it is not going to be under the power-sharing system that existed before the start of the civil war . |
| 4 | It is possible to have a system in which ‘ workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations , etc but it is not going to be ‘ unsophisticated ’ . |
| 5 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 6 | Whatever reply I find for that one , obviously it is not going to be |
| 7 | This time around it is not going to be the consumer who leads the UK out of recession . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a wonderful goal , except that it is not going to be reached overnight . |
| 9 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 10 | It is not going to be easy . |
| 11 | ‘ And it is not going to be won ’ , says Mr Carlson , ‘ by a bunch of biplane pilots flying round by the seat of their pants . ’ |
| 12 | It does n't have to have the polish of a broadcast programme if it is not going to be broadcast . |
| 13 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 14 | It is not going to be helpful to have the panel supplied with the information we asked for in relation to the Greater York area devised from the H B F table of commitments , confined to York City and the greenbelt . |
| 15 | It is not going to be anyone high up from Grand Met . ’ |
| 16 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 17 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 18 | It is not going to be reopened . ’ |
| 19 | It is coming to an end in May , it is not coming to an end in practice . |
| 20 | The most important thing to emphasise is that , regardless of the attitude of the glider , if it is not responding to moving back on the stick or if the stick is hitting the back stop , a forward movement must be made to allow the glider to unstall . |
| 21 | But more than one such mention , or a too heavily insisted on mention , especially when it is plain that it is not contributing to the whole , simply draws attention to the fact that you are producing fiction . |
| 22 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 23 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 24 | It is again referring to the needless deaths of youths and Owen 's emotional feelings for the subject having been through it all himself . |
| 25 | It is either going to be physically rationed or price rationed … prices are too low anyway , since we still have to have an operating subsidy , and that is not in line with the long-term political trend … ’ |
| 26 | It is probably going to be impossible to sum this amp up without re-introducing the age old arguments concerning transistor vs tube technology . |
| 27 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 28 | A single mother I met in Sheffield has got housing , but in a Dickensian block of flats , on the fifth floor , with no lift , a damp kitchen , bathroom and hall where the wallpaper seems to stand up only out of inertia because it is n't sticking to the walls . |
| 29 | ‘ It is n't going to be easy , that 's all . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't going to be easy , ’ Karen had remarked when she heard I was coming . |