Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb -s] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |
| 2 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 3 | Half of it remains to be saved . |
| 4 | Bass frets take a fair old hammering and , as David mentioned in the guitar review , we ca n't accurately gauge their potential life , so that side of it remains to be seen . |
| 5 | But most of it seems to be going to shady ‘ Near Eastern ’ dealers and private citizens . |
| 6 | Slater has a lot of style , even if most of it seems to be on loan from Jack Nicholson ( by way of Peter Falk ) . |
| 7 | Although the majority of the fly seems to be no less dead than a dodo , one side of it seems to be the intact creature it had been 30 seconds earlier . |
| 8 | Much of it seems to be haunted landscape poetry . |
| 9 | A fundamental part of it has to be this recognition : animals have the right to be left alone . |
| 10 | Surveys carried out for market research purposes can not normally cover the whole of the relevant population , so a representative sample of it has to be taken . |
| 11 | Surveys carried out for market research purposes can not ( usually ) realistically cover the whole of the relevant population , so a " sample " of it has to be taken . |
| 12 | The choice of sample Market research surveys can not realistically cover the whole of the relevant population , so a " sample " of it has to be taken . |
| 13 | The register and index have to be open for inspection during business hours by any member without charge and by any other person on payment of a small fee and a copy of it or any part of it has to be supplied to anyone on payment of a modest charge . |
| 14 | The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened . |
| 15 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |
| 16 | Each part of it needs to be revealed and shared by the head and governors with other teachers , parents and those who have an interest in the school on behalf of local or central government . |
| 17 | The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer . |
| 18 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 19 | Erm yeah , it 's , it like it wants to be friendly |
| 20 | The intuitive idea behind it seems to be this : since morality is an expression of one 's rational nature , it is essentially self-determined . |
| 21 | Yes certainly in the late nineteen eighties , more houses were built in one particular year , depend depending on which part of the country you 're in it happens to be different years . |
| 22 | In other words the history of jewellery and of the precious substances incorporated in it needs to be studied in the context of social history and vice versa . |
| 23 | But the S Q L code which is sent to it has to be interpreted when it gets to the server machine , and we all know the difference between compiled and interpreted code . |
| 24 | It tends to it tends to be a bit lost in the earthiness of the mud and the water . |
| 25 | Because if football 's on it has to be watched ! |
| 26 | If the time is to be extended , then the case for it has to be made again , and to take changed circumstances into account . |
| 27 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |