Example sentences of "it [vb -s] to be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House .
2 Er and we feel that that would be er unrealistic but within the modelling context , we do n't think that it needs to be separately taken into account .
3 However , if it is to be well used , it needs to be well organised .
4 It needs to be firmly said that these essentially non-instrumental disciplines do not constitute a dilettante add-on to higher education , unnoticed if lost .
5 The serious ill-health of the witness is a strong reason , but it needs to be clearly proved ; the courts have shown themselves suspicious of mere assertions of unfitness to travel .
6 The beach start is the only way to launch into breaking waves and it needs to be carefully timed .
7 At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context .
8 A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on .
9 It needs to be about half a millimetre thick to absorb the whole solar spectrum and , since it 's an expensive material , silicon-based solar cells are comparatively expensive to make .
10 The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery .
11 If an objective is to be effectively measured it needs to be very clearly defined .
12 Presumably you ca n't use it for anything else because it needs to be very smooth and perfect .
13 It needs to be more ragged . ’
14 It needs to be much more severe with outrageous advertisements but , equally , it should not obstruct the public 's access to proved specialist services .
15 If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms .
16 Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) .
17 Clearly , if care programming aims to prevent people from becoming lost to services , it needs to be fairly all-inclusive .
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 Miss Whiplash and Bash the Barbarian are still doing battle over the right to reply , and judging by the amount of mail each receive it looks to be about even at the moment .
20 It has to be closely supervised but provides a good job for any adult who might be feeling somewhat self-conscious .
21 Management 's role thus becomes a kind of balancing act ( this is sometimes called the ‘ stakeholder ’ theory ) , and it has to be even more persuasive than ever in ‘ selling ’ its proposals .
22 It has to be here already , thought Fenella , trying to quiet the frantic thudding of her heart .
23 One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ .
24 It has to be just a little longer , straighter and perhaps more masculine . ’
25 It has to be just about the most melancholy job in Government , cataloguing the Treasury 's human detritus .
26 Althusser faces this question , but warns that it has to be carefully formulated if it is to illuminate the process of the production of knowledges .
27 There are so many parts of this jigsaw that still are not in place and again Mr Chairman through you , I know you have similar to this , this case although you put it strongly it has to be widely publicized , we must be linked , not only to the rest of the country , but even more importantly now linked to the continent , welcome very much indeed , but not in place .
28 It has to be clearly understood that whether LMS or GMS there is inevitably going to be a change in the existing relationships at all levels ; this will have implications for where differing and changed levels of power will lie .
29 What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic .
30 No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic .
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