Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [adj] " 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 | This cliff already has an aid climb , The Lid , which , if it were to go free would be very hard indeed . |
| 3 | This is the haunt of the Natterjack toad , a protected and endangered species with the delightful and befitting name of Bufo Calamita — certainly it would be a calamity if it were to become extinct . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's to stop such thefts that Horsewatch has been formed . |
| 6 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 7 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
| 8 | It looks , you know , I mean , it 's to say that , it sounds really weird , but it |
| 9 | I mean it 's to set this up , it 's about maths |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose it 's to enable blasted Bertha to remain in it — just when you have the opportunity to get her out . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , British Gas has announced it 's to cut twelve hundred jobs as part of restructuring the company . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law |
| 13 | So but there 's one thing ambition and it 's to smash that silly cow in the face ! |
| 14 | it 's to buy that picture a thou a thousand pounds ! |
| 15 | Now if they increase their output alright that will displace imports alright , so protectionism leads to self sufficiency and by and large self sufficiency is protectionism 's raison d'etre , that 's why it 's there right it 's to increase domestic output of this particular product . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | A leading brewery in the Fox F M area has confirmed it 's to offer financial help to pub managers faced with high Poll Tax bills . |
| 18 | This is a training session for , life assurance , well it 's to pro , it 's to provide permanent health insurance benefits , and whilst I think there 's evidence at the moment to suggest that obviously your health is in by smoking , erm , insurance companies have n't got round yet to saying it 's enough of a risk that it will keep you off work , although quite clearly I think it will . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , the lighter the camera the harder it is to hold steady , though at least one ultra-compact machine now has Electronic Image Stabilisation to minimise picture shake ! ( ) n the other hand , professional-style camcorders , which are much heavier , are not as prone to the problem of camera-shake . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Experiments have been performed to investigate , at different times of the day and night , how easy it is to fall asleep , how likely it is to wake up spontaneously , and how long volunteers can stay asleep . |
| 26 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
| 29 | RATNERS , the jewellery chain whose profits plunged after its boss branded one of its lines ‘ total crap ’ , announced yesterday it is to close 180 shops . |
| 30 | 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 . |