Example sentences of "[vb base] it be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say it 's to drain the West Bog . " |
| 2 | Well they say it 's to do with the annual . |
| 3 | The organisers say it 's to help politicians guage public feeling … but the MP says he does n't want to know . |
| 4 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |
| 5 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 6 | When we wake it is to find ourselves alone and separate , trapped in the toils of matter . |
| 7 | So the first thing an owl will do when you release it is to scout out the land . |
| 8 | I suppose it 's to go in the book . ’ |
| 9 | Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er |
| 10 | Er I I suppose it 's to see how people use the English language . |
| 11 | I suppose it 's to stop cars parking up now is it ? |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose it 's to enable blasted Bertha to remain in it — just when you have the opportunity to get her out . |
| 13 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 14 | Ah , I guess it 's to do with cans and bottles and things , actually but |
| 15 | Or you could put it into your introduction depending on which way you feel it is to handle . |
| 16 | And around about sixty percent of the overall provision as we calculate it is to accommodate migration led development in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Well I 've got to know , cos sort of adult as well , I mean you included as I mean it 's to put |
| 18 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 19 | I mean it 's to set this up , it 's about maths |
| 20 | You know I mean , oh oh di you know I mean it 's to theorise , I suppose but I mean all it takes really is to have three bins . |
| 21 | And he said it was n't his fault , he , he told to do by the script writers , but I mean it 's to make out that he had no right to , it 's ridiculous . |
| 22 | Deborah did actually say to me , she thought that Harrogate might feel I think it 's to do with priorities for the |
| 23 | ‘ I think it 's to do with when he was young . ’ |
| 24 | " I think it 's to do with the clarity of the voice . |
| 25 | Right , I think it 's to do with the fact that two on this digest is about the |
| 26 | I think it 's to do my riding exams but , I ca as I said , cos Brenda whose horse I ride up at Bridley I was telling her and I said , why would the spirit world get in such a state |
| 27 | Yeah , his amp 's got , yeah his amp was built for this particular type of er , I ca n't remember what bloody amp he 's got now there were no , no particularly flash like , you know , er , er , they were saying something to do with clipping , I think it 's to do with clipping they saying the power up , the power point 's alright as long as you do n't clip , because what happens is if the wave forms doing that |
| 28 | you with me ? , cos I 'm having him going over my words , but I felt really guilty about that , because I , the thought that he was frightened of me shouting at him and yet I think it 's to do with passing over of all authority , I 've been teaching him , I 'm the one that does the words , not her |
| 29 | I think it 's to make us realise that you get punished for what you do , but it does n't 20 work like that . |
| 30 | Moreover , how important you think it is to justify your assertions will depend partly on what sort of writing you are engaged in ; a film review in a newspaper , for instance , is a genre where few assertions are justified . |