Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |
| 2 | A person who is illegitimate may very well resent being called a bastard , although it happens literally to be true . |
| 3 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |
| 4 | Their counsel , John Mitchell , QC , said that it had yet to be decided whether an appeal would be pursued and it was unclear whether that could be arranged before the meeting at Brockville tonight . |
| 5 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 6 | Figure 6.5 is a model of the lunar interior , many features of which would be accepted by most scientists , though a minority would argue that it has yet to be established that the Moon has a global crust . |
| 7 | The latest news on the revised Assisted Areas map is that it has still to be sent to the European Commission for approval ; it is not known how long this process will take . |
| 8 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 9 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 10 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 11 | The fact that it turned out to be Laura on the doormat , instead of Alexandra , made no difference whatsoever to his sheer idiotic lunacy . |
| 12 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 13 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |
| 14 | And one more coming up , let's take it from the bottom of the pile , literally , and it turns out to be Mrs Diane , Street , Market Harborough . |
| 15 | When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock . |
| 16 | And for Mrs Stephanie Pearson of , Coleville and one more coming out the bag and it turns out to be C Fletcher of , Chilwell . |
| 17 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 18 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 19 | The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over . |
| 20 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 21 | And it seems undoubtedly to be more rapid when he 's put to the breast . |
| 22 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 23 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 24 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 25 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 26 | An unusual call led us to the reeds by the lake , and it turned out to be an ortolan bunting , quite distinctive with its buff chest and olive-green head . |
| 27 | He could then calculate the energy corresponding to this orbit ( see Appendix , Al ) and it turned out to be |
| 28 | and then and then I s and then in me head I did erm seven take away ten and then I worked it out and it turned out to be three . |
| 29 | And it turned out to be them . |
| 30 | The mother had taken a house by the sea for a month for her daughter 's health and it turned out to be an Indian summer that year . |