Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 2 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 3 | The idea that there is free trade in the EEC is in many key sectors of economic activity as misplaced as would be the suggestion that there is a free market in European agricultural products , another sector which it has been British policy to attempt to liberalise . |
| 4 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 5 | It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs . |
| 6 | We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it . |
| 7 | All it takes is one conviction to make you a criminal . |
| 8 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |