Example sentences of "it to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The closest thing that I can compare it to is the film . |
| 2 | But this is a general proposition , which can not be translated into a practical guide for individual action by declaring it to be the responsibility of each and every management never to raise prices and if possible to lower them . |
| 3 | The chances are that if you are told a nasty tale about the sexual misdemeanours of a headmaster , a vicar , a scout leader , a member of Parliament , a public performer or a novelist then you will assume it to be the truth . |
| 4 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I have never found it to be the case . ’ |
| 6 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 7 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 8 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 9 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 10 | The report concludes : ‘ In short , we believe it to be the most complete undertaking , ( the Veterinary College excepted ) of the kind in the kingdom ’ . |
| 11 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 12 | Is it to be the old , old British story , of our doing the earliest work , and other nations taking advantage of our brains ? |
| 13 | Experience at home and abroad shows it to be the responsibility of the governor of an independent central bank , not of a party hack . |
| 14 | I believe it to be the source of evil . |
| 15 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 16 | Is it to be the often ideal arrangement of a ‘ granny-flat ’ extension to your house , in which she will have her own bed-sitter with kitchen , bathroom and lavatory ? |
| 17 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 18 | Was it to be the relatively independent tradition of political argument , criticism and competition that characterized some of the English language papers of pre-independence West Africa ? |
| 19 | Half-expecting it to be the milkman , she was mildly irritated to see two young men standing on the steps outside . |
| 20 | Who would expect it to be the home of the biggest water-wheel in Europe ? |
| 21 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 22 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 23 | Athletics coaches allude to it constantly , believing it to be the basis of blacks ' successes . |
| 24 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 25 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 26 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose is right in there pitching with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of Microsoft 's first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |
| 27 | Amdahl Corp last week announced UTS Release 4 , claiming it to be the world 's first commercial Unix System V.4.1ES-based system according to Ken Gorf , director , Open Systems , Europe . |
| 28 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 30 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , is right in there with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of the first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |