Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 2 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 3 | It allows short extracts to be presented . |
| 4 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 5 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 6 | In fact , to refuse a parent 's request would not be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , even though it requires such convictions to be upheld . |
| 7 | It urged civil servants to be as helpful as possible and to withhold information only in the interests of national security and ‘ good government ’ . |
| 8 | It pays these creatures to be very conspicuous indeed . |
| 9 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 10 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
| 11 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 12 | It enables accurate determinations to be made of the elastic constants of anisotropic materials and in principle all the elastic constants can be found . |
| 13 | It enables different theories to be understood in a historical , chronological sequence , one set of theories developing from and often criticising previous work . |
| 14 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 15 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 16 | At least , it leaves key questions to be re-answered by Macmillian 's apologists . |