Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 2 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |
| 3 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 4 | Partisan viewers tended to see television as being less favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other viewers . |
| 5 | At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers . |
| 6 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 7 | Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys . |
| 8 | Pragmatism might be less radical in practice than it appears to be in theory . |
| 9 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 10 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 11 | If it proves to be outside his scope , a letter of explanation will be sent to the complainant and to the member who referred the complaint . |
| 12 | This wo n't be any good for the official one cos it has to be on an original form |
| 13 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 14 | Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse |
| 15 | For instance , taking a semi-detached house worth £60,000 in Milton Keynes and a semi-detached house also worth £60,000 in Northampton , the household in Northampton would pay £88 more in tax simply because it happened to be across the regional boundary . |
| 16 | One of the richest made for Julius II later escaped the sack of Rome because it happened to be in pawn at the time . |
| 17 | Grown-up critics manage to deny its appeal ( probably the very same priapic excitement they derived from rock in their unreconstructed youth ) because it seems to be at odds with their sexual politics . |
| 18 | The issues are probably too complex to be adequately dealt with here , but the government should certainly give Gorbachev 's initiative every encouragement because it seems to be in this country 's own long-term interests . |
| 19 | However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat . |
| 20 | This means that information about food obtained by following others was most available to a given individual when it appears to be of least importance . |
| 21 | But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction . |
| 22 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’ |
| 24 | Nothing was as it appeared to be with him . |
| 25 | For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred . |
| 26 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 27 | Such a state of affairs can not be ignored , as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment . |
| 28 | When the hammer strikes , the string can not be dislodged from the nut , as it tends to be in a conventional 18th-century action , but is hit into the nut as in a down-striking action . |
| 29 | The whole clause is not qualified , as it appears to be on first reading , by the opening words ‘ with intent . ’ |
| 30 | I would have the gearbox checked out as it seems to be at fault . |