Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning . |
| 2 | 1 he Act states ‘ … the general purpose of a community council shall be to ascertain , co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for its area , and to public authorities , the views of the community which it represents … and to take such action in the interests of that community as appears to it to be expedient and practicable ’ ( Section 51(2) ) . |
| 3 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 4 | Each turn is covered in sufficient detail for it to be understandable and achievable by most skiers . |
| 5 | Eventually enough of these shapes were collected and studied for it to be undeniable that this is just what they must be . |
| 6 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 7 | What it is in general for a thing a to have the power to produce b is for it to be true that an individual property or properties of a , together with other things , will constitute a causal circumstance for b . |
| 8 | But by our first truism about truth , for it to be true that there 's honey is just for there to be honey . |
| 9 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 10 | The entry for number 291 , a portrait of a woman , is a fair example of method : ‘ The quality of ( the picture ) seems sufficiently high for it to be acceptable as from Cranach 's own hand . |