Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild |
| 2 | And i , it were just to show his authority , you know . |
| 3 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 4 | If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject . |
| 5 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 6 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 7 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 8 | Near the Clonmacnoise entrance , the river had overflowed into the fields , beside a misshapen castle tower that perched on a hummock , balanced at an angle and looking as if it were about to fall over . |
| 9 | And then , when no-one even blinked an eye , nor have him any money , nor ( surprisingly enough ) the offer of a job … ‘ ‘ ; the stifling heat in the Métro tunnels , as if it were about to explode at any moment , and this uplifting sense of drifting , passing through whole areas of life scarcely touching on any of them . |
| 10 | At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed . |
| 11 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 12 | Her collarbone felt as if it were about to burst through her skin but her head had cleared and she felt strong . |
| 13 | Looking to go public in the next year , it is now out for a $1m second round to be used primarily for sales and marketing , efforts it 's yet to put its back into and needs a vice president of marketing and marketing and two sales people . |
| 14 | The present duke has made some additions — as part of the pleaseure gardens , he 's added a maze , the second longest in the world — planted five years ago , it 's yet to grow to its full height of 5 or 6 feet . |
| 15 | I do n't think , I mean , it 's probably to say as we are ourselves struggling , for example with the issue of general welcoming . |
| 16 | i it 's probably to do with new words like wa wally and things |
| 17 | nine ninety nine well I supposed it 's not to miss |
| 18 | No it 's not to go together is it ? |
| 19 | It 's not to interface with more systems , there 's a lot more software in it and er therefore the companies concerned have got a lot more work to do . |
| 20 | Er it 's not to live there it 's just |
| 21 | you 've just taken a knock you did n't get the job , it 's not to say a job wo n't come up again now what you gon na do give up or keep trying ? |
| 22 | It 's not to say that we are against capital projects , we are not . |
| 23 | It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories . |
| 24 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 25 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 26 | Why are they doing it , if it 's not to do ? |
| 27 | It 's not to do with the |
| 28 | It 's not to make you the greatest soul winner . |
| 29 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |
| 30 | As long as it 's not to make a rabbit 's costume . |