Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way , Theodora thought , how like the clergy it was to want to keep the clerical club intact and not let in outsiders . |
| 2 | In welcoming the crew , the Rajah Curry House in Liverpool 13 can not have anticipated the battlefield of cables , cameras and kormas it was to become . |
| 3 | ‘ Separate beds it is to minimise the infection , as much liquids as they can take , except milk . |
| 4 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 5 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 6 | First , I shall discuss the way in which the system of ‘ levels of attainment ’ emerged from the Report of the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) and the purposes it was to serve . |
| 7 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 8 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , DEC 's European Alpha partner , will port Unix System Labs Inc 's operating system to the DEC Alpha machines it is to resell under its own name from next May . |
| 9 | In general terms it is to restrict access to judicial review . |
| 10 | When Isabel at last returned to an awareness of her surroundings it was to feel the gentle touch of Guy 's mouth , moving over her throat in a series of feather-light kisses . |
| 11 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 12 | For both sides it was to prove an arduous siege . |
| 13 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 14 | A different reader will spot them quickly , and newspapers and publishers employ people one of whose jobs it is to pick out the " literals " ( slips ) made by writers , typists and typesetters : readers do not necessarily assume that the editor or journalist ca n't spell if they find a printing error . |