Example sentences of "it [is] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
| 2 | It looks , you know , I mean , it 's to say that , it sounds really weird , but it |
| 3 | I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law |
| 4 | So but there 's one thing ambition and it 's to smash that silly cow in the face ! |
| 5 | it 's to buy that picture a thou a thousand pounds ! |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The way to do it is to treat that murder in as formal a manner as you can . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I know how easy it is to do that , coming up there . |
| 12 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 13 | Below a certain height it may be a hopeless situation , but even where there is enough height for a recovery , you can imagine how hard it is to make that movement forward unless you have practised stalls and incipient spins until the movements are well drilled . |
| 14 | Mr Brighton , erm before I turn to another speaker , your comment about the location of a new settlement , and the likely effect it would have on the West Yorkshire conurbation , er I presume from what you 've said is that effectively the new settlement , if you have one , its location should be such as to serve the needs of York and Greater York , and therefore the further it is away from the West Yorkshire conurbation , or the West side of North Yorkshire , the more likely it is to fulfil that function . |
| 15 | It is to avoid that boxy look that skirts are rounded at the lower edge , especially if the skirt is formed of panels . |