Example sentences of "it be [verb] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | I refer to your letter of 10 September 1992 concerning the Council Tax staffing proposals and the report which it is proposed to submit to the Finance Committee on Wednesday 16 September 1992 . |
| 32 | The resources it is proposed to apply to the contract , and some indication of how they are costed . |
| 33 | It is forecast to fall to 15% in April . |
| 34 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 35 | Having made his point so tellingly , Mr Foot makes no sweeping claims about his compilation , writing simply : ‘ This is a book about war , more than about art … it is meant to contribute to the history of war , rather than to art history . ’ |
| 36 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 37 | It is expected to lead to the creation of some 500 new jobs , mainly at Marconi 's Stanmore and Plessey Avionics ' West Leigh sites , but also at a large number of sub-contractors throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 38 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 39 | If you are going to preach conversion — and I hope we shall in many different ways and , skilfully , with many different nuances — you can not avoid the consequences : it is going to lead to transformed lives . |
| 40 | Inevitably , it is going to lead to stocks that are narrower in range , but the benefits are already showing in additional use . |
| 41 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 42 | It is not just ignorance , but arrogance ; you do not think it is going to happen to you . |
| 43 | I think it is going to have to be a draw |
| 44 | Beneath the oceans it is thought to extend to a depth of around 10–15km , that is to only 5–1Okm below the ocean floor . |
| 45 | In 1980 the overall dependency ratio in Britain was 56.2 and it is predicted to increase to 56.7 by the year 2020 ( Table 2.4 ) . |
| 46 | She 'd known that it was bound to lead to Arnie . |
| 47 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 48 | Thus in 1779 , when it was desired to refer to Choiseul 's despatches relating to the Family Compact of 1761 , they could not be found and copies had to be obtained from Madrid . |
| 49 | With tempers fraying , it was decided to return to the question today . |
| 50 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 51 | It was intended to go to Cserka , where 25,000 Muslims are trapped by besieging Serbs . |
| 52 | When the offence of obstructing a constable was first enacted by Parliament , it seems reasonably clear that it was intended to refer to physical obstruction only . |
| 53 | The world would be a better place if it was predisposed to listen to Blackwomen 's voices . |
| 54 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 55 | How may it speak to us , as it was designed to speak to Torquatus the Roman ? |
| 56 | Nobel is now seeking repayment of the SKr19 200m capital contribution it was pressurised to make to a 14-bank consortium to save Gamlestaden . |
| 57 | It was expected to lead to the appointment of an impartial body to determine responsibility for the conflict . |
| 58 | How to make government responsive to the choices of those it was expected to cater to ? |
| 59 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 60 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |