Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] it is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under current German law , traders can export all types of waste if it is to be used for " commercial purposes " in the destination country . |
| 2 | Christianity , as we know it , is in many respects actually closer to those pagan systems of belief than it is to its own Judaic origins . |
| 3 | It is as important to be ruthlessly clear about the underlying causes of success as it is to be analytical about the basic faults which have led to failure . |
| 4 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 5 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 6 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 7 | But both health authorities issued a warning that the charter needs support from patients if it is to be a success . |
| 8 | But both health authorities issued a warning that the charter needs support from patients if it is to be a success . |
| 9 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 10 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 11 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’ |
| 14 | And in fact Hartlepool is much more related to Durham than it is to er North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Burnard and Chapman go further-than this definition , by recommending that knowledge should be research based and up to date if it is to be the best for accountability in practice . |
| 16 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 17 | Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved . |