Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a terrible moment , something flared in his heart and he felt an insidious tug at his mind : how would it be to enter that Realm , and talk with the Dark Lords and learn their secrets … ? |
| 2 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 3 | It 's to stop such thefts that Horsewatch has been formed . |
| 4 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
| 5 | It looks , you know , I mean , it 's to say that , it sounds really weird , but it |
| 6 | I mean it 's to set this up , it 's about maths |
| 7 | I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law |
| 8 | So but there 's one thing ambition and it 's to smash that silly cow in the face ! |
| 9 | it 's to buy that picture a thou a thousand pounds ! |
| 10 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 11 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And although Jesus himself remains to a significant degree elusive , it is as possible to deduce plausible information about him as it is to deduce such information about Arthur , or Robin Hood . |
| 14 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
| 15 | Or , if it is to say that , by way of some stringent idea of what is satisfactory , there is also another conclusion to be drawn . |
| 16 | It 's not a question of how good it is to recycle several tons , it would be better still not to produce it . |
| 17 | The strength and potential of the modern concern for curriculum development lies in the fact that we now realise how important it is to undertake these processes , and in a logical sequence . |
| 18 | The way to do it is to treat that murder in as formal a manner as you can . |
| 19 | A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’ |
| 20 | You can imagine how difficult it is to do such a thing . |
| 21 | I know how easy it is to do that , coming up there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The more complex the banking system , the more difficult it is to do this . |
| 24 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 25 | It is to spend more resources on social and community facilities and to employ community liaison officers . |
| 26 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
| 27 | Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all . |
| 28 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 29 | ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’ |
| 30 | So the it should be qu easier to sort these than it is to sort those . |