Example sentences of "it is [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 2 | It is however to evade the issue as to whether Christianity and feminism are compatible . |
| 3 | Well if the definition of salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in a particular volume of water , perhaps the logical way to do it is simply to take a volume of water and evaporate it and weigh the amount of salt that 's left so that might be the simplest approach . |
| 4 | It is simply to make a comment about their style of doing things . |
| 5 | It is simply to recall the fact that almost all human behaviour , at least that which deserves the name of ‘ action ’ , is in fact culturally moulded and elaborated . |
| 6 | I have heard it said that when bream break surface it is simply to obtain the extra oxygen available there . |
| 7 | Er and finally to say that the strategy th that we have is not to take jobs from other areas , it is simply to meet the needs of the resident workforce . |
| 8 | But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned . |
| 9 | If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other . |
| 10 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 11 | What then is the function of the student in the lecture period , if it is not to fill a notebook with what is written on the blackboard ? |
| 12 | To say that it has been the poorer for it is not to denigrate the work that was done . |
| 13 | It is not to dictate the course of the Hearing , and only the Chairman of the Panel can have a person removed . |
| 14 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
| 15 | As with any other policy the insurers will commonly require exclusions against the following : ( 1 ) The adequacy of insurance arrangements The view of the insurers is that it should be for the purchaser to determine whether existing insurance cover for the business is adequate and if it is not to increase the level of cover with effect from completion . |
| 16 | ‘ must be kept within narrow limits if it is not to shake the confidence of those who habitually and rightly rely on signatures when there is no obvious reason to doubt their validity . |
| 17 | Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval . |
| 18 | Even if the new President had entered his official residence , he would have no standing in his own community , and what , after all , is the point of a Maronite President if it is not to integrate the Maronites within the traditional confessional system which — readjusted in the Muslims ' favour — the Tayif agreement perpetuates ? |
| 19 | It is not to change the policy or feel some humility about 12 years of failure . |
| 20 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 22 | In this instance the objective is not just a winning result ; it is also to leave the volunteer workers with an awareness not only of their importance , but of the value of the contribution they have made and how much they are appreciated by the ‘ roadies ’ and the candidates passing through . |
| 23 | It is also to proclaim a message about Jesus — and therein for a feminist lie all the problems . |
| 24 | It is also to assert an ethnically , or nationality-based citizenship to the exclusion of those who do not share that particular cultural tendency . |
| 25 | Once one of these grounds has been established , the party seeking the setting aside , which can be the adjudication officer or the claimant , must show that it is just to set the decision aside . |
| 26 | Some Irish nationalists hold that it is just to unite the nation by force — a typical view of secular nationalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe . |
| 27 | It is instead to consider the significance for trusts that they were subject to a legal system of procedure other than the classical formulary ordo . |
| 28 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 29 | Clearly the health authority does not argue that because it is about to honour a similar referral to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 30 | As for Egypt , I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman is seriously suggesting that it is about to launch an attack on Israel , or is to be feared in that connection . |