Example sentences of "it [be] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 2 | I think in terms of public order and violence on the streets , then it 's to court disaster to wait until the disruption actually happens . |
| 3 | Yes , it 's to kind of forestall Martha , before she has a chance to get in there . |
| 4 | Or it 's to hell in a handcart . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got a small networking job which needs doing quickly in Dr Pankhurst 's room — basically it 's to network in two additional PCs , one of which already has a network card . |
| 6 | The church is part of a wider society and it is to society 's attitudes that we now turn . |
| 7 | The metaphor of ventriloquy is therefore as appropriate to criticism as it is to fiction , since object texts , like fictional worlds , have no autonomous existence . |
| 8 | The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource . |
| 9 | Convenient as it is to date the militarization of the Cold War from the outbreak of the war in Korea in June 1950 , warning signs of increasing East–West tension had occurred well before that crisis . |
| 10 | Generally , the bigger the fish , the less vulnerable it is to predation . |
| 11 | Although it is to Christianity that we owe our modern temporal orientation , it is to the Romans that we are mainly indebted for the form of our calendar and conventions of time recording . |
| 12 | This chest also can not have the sides broken open , since it has a full iron inlay — the only way to force it is to crowbar the lid open . |
| 13 | It is to director Phil Alden Robinson 's credit that he manages to invest them with distinct , sympathetic personalities and a taut mutual need which makes their awesome risk-taking seem unquestionable . |
| 14 | And of course if an individual is fined and does not pay the fine then it is to prison he will go . |
| 15 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 16 | Mercury One-to-One has also confirmed that it is to beta test the service before the launch , which is planned for this summer . |
| 17 | Indeed , one could say that the latter without the former is more use to the game of Trivial Pursuit than it is to science . |
| 18 | It is to market demands that Foster returns . |
| 19 | The mothers used cotton wool for cosmetic purposes because they had already purchased it for child and babycare , and it is to hand . |
| 20 | Sources within Coopers suggest that Deloitte in Australia will shortly announce it is to side with Coopers , and the firm is confident that the Canadians will follow suit . |
| 21 | It 's cheaper to fax a one page letter than it is to post it . |
| 22 | The truth is that pop is of much greater danger to social democracy than it is to capitalism . |
| 23 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |
| 24 | Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it ! |
| 25 | When Pamela 's parents were interviewed they spent a lot of time emphasizing how necessary they thought it was to discipline Pamela . |
| 26 | The Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales lost 8,195 hectares of moorland ( to agriculture and forestry ) between 1885 and 1975 , and the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park lost 5,201 hectares over a similar period , though the majority of it was to forestry . |
| 27 | He knew just how close it was to disaster . |
| 28 | And it was to hand . |
| 29 | The Commission announced on July 5 , 1989 , that it was to phase out by January 1993 the limits on the value of goods which citizens of EC member states were allowed to take across internal borders , in readiness for the abolition of border controls . |
| 30 | Starring at the County Ground tomorrow is Kenny Dalglish and his Blackburn team … his very first match as Rovers manager was at Swindon … both clubs have gone up in the world since then but what Town would give to turn the clock back and have the same scoreline again … 2-1 it was to swindon Chalky White and Colin Calderwood got the Town goals … |