Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism .
2 JAPAN 'S second largest car maker , Nissan Motors , has announced it is to close one of its main passenger car factories in Japan and shed 5,000 of its Japanese workforce by 1996 in a bid to restore the company to profitability .
3 If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones .
4 Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic .
5 If it is to make good on Mr Bush 's hope that it may be possible to ‘ settle the conflicts that divide the Arabs from Israel ’ , it will have to convince the Israelis that they can be secure even shorn of the occupied territories .
6 The intuitive explanation for this has already been discussed : the greater the proportion of the variance of the composite disturbance term which is due to the variance of the more sensible it is to attribute more of any period 's composite disturbance to .
7 To lose it is to become homeless in a world that is suddenly alien and hostile .
8 What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound !
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