Example sentences of "it is [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a mistake to be too naive about the old wetland commons . |
| 2 | It is a mistake to be too ambitious to begin with , for when 50 or so near maturity they will require lots of food and it may take some gathering . |
| 3 | It is a homage to the kind of spirit that would have felt at home in Philip Glass . |
| 4 | It is a successor to a larger ESRC supported study by cross-sectional analysis of British central departments in 1976/7 , which is reported in Bureaumetrics : the quantitative comparison of British central government agencies ( Farnborough : Gower 1981 ) , by C Hood and A Dunsire . |
| 5 | It is dealt with first because not only is it an important form of legal control through the tort of nuisance , but it is a prerequisite to understanding the controls afforded by the Public Health legislation , discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 7 | The fact that religion wo n't just go away — that it is a phenomenon to be explained — has led those influenced by positivism to explain religion as entirely a matter of social and cultural conditioning and outward show : basically religion is a kind of cultural dressing-up game . |
| 8 | It is a follow-up to the World Conservation Strategy of 1980 , which has since formed the basis for all or part of 50 national strategies in 50 . |
| 9 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 10 | But it is a relief to both the rider and the horse occasionally to dismount . ’ |
| 11 | For all irrational and exploitative forms of authority , self-assertion — the pursuit by another of his own goals — is the arch sin because it is a threat to the power of the authority ; the person subject to it is indoctrinated to believe that the aims of the authority are also his , and that obedience offers the optimal chance for fulfilling oneself . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a dream to be playing with all these top players . |
| 13 | It is a return to the 1930s idea that people out of work had to humble themselves to be given benefit they were entitled to . |
| 14 | Now planning has reverted to being a subservient and neglected activity , in fact it is a return to the status quo . |
| 15 | It is a return to the capital for German-born Mr Nitschke , who was here from 1985–87 managing The Dorchester , where Regent had a management contract . |
| 16 | It is a passport to altered states of consciousness and ultimately to self-realisation . |
| 17 | Most analysts consider this high : it is a discount to the expected market price of just over 10% , not the 15% often expected by underwriters . |
| 18 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 19 | Yes , it is a memorial to the Lord Admiral Lord Nelson . |
| 20 | £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients . |
| 21 | It is a benefit to the husband for it to be so regarded , and that is sufficient consideration to support his promise . |
| 22 | I have always thought that a promise to perform an existing duty , or the performance of it , should be regarded as good consideration , because it is a benefit to the person to whom it is given . |
| 23 | It is a £4bn to £5bn injection that should help . |
| 24 | Given their atrocious living conditions , it is a tribute to the tenacity of the Saratov peasantry that even this number appeared . |
| 25 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 26 | It is a tribute to the efficacy of Daynurse ( recommended by his driver ) , and the restorative powers of malt whisky ( a present for his 50th birthday ) that the campaign did not take a more visible toll . |
| 27 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 28 | It is a tribute to the Boots system that they are still by far the most common ex-library books . |
| 29 | It is a tribute to the skill and wisdom of our ancestors that no outstanding staple crops have been introduced in the past 5000 years , and of those introduced in the past thousand years only a few , like the swede , have a significant nutritional impact . |
| 30 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |