Example sentences of "it is [vb pp] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is related to our mind structure , not that of other creatures . |
| 2 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |
| 3 | And because no knowledge is fully clear in the mind until it is explained to someone else , the time at Lincoln was further formative for his mind . |
| 4 | Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us . |
| 5 | ( Please amend the declaration on your Application if you wish to see any report before it is sent to us . ) |
| 6 | It is sent to our secretary , who has the considerable task of arranging the pages into a form suitable for photo-copying , inserting photographs , and if necessary reducing then to the correct size , etc. for insertion into the gaps left in the text . |
| 7 | This was possible because someone can be tried once and convicted once for every separate offence he commits and an offence under section 14 is committed every time someone reads the brochure — since a false statement is made every time it is communicated to someone . |
| 8 | The Convention was given legislative force in the United Kingdom by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 indeed , it is annexed to it . |
| 9 | The ‘ Action Men ’ are aware that it is used as a term of abuse and often become angry when it is applied to them . |
| 10 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 11 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 12 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 13 | Many of us laugh at prejudice when it is presented to us in someone else . |
| 14 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 15 | And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently . |
| 16 | We can all be too clever by half , and it is wiser to take the gospel story as it is revealed to us and presented throughout the whole of the sacred text of scripture . |
| 17 | A wife 's pension is liable to tax and , like any other income she has , it is added to her husband 's in arriving at their total income . |
| 18 | Under league rules , the Northern League must be informed by the end of January if any club wishes to take promotion if it is offered to them . |
| 19 | Your reward , which you may decide to turn down when eventually it is offered to you , is to stand on the vertiginous suspension bridge which was strung between the two sides of the gorge here in 1920 . |
| 20 | ‘ We have explained how we would run the competition if it is awarded to us and proposed June 1995 as the ideal date . |
| 21 | Burger smiled : ‘ But there will be very few who do not know if it is left to you , dear . |
| 22 | It is future planning it is growth it is commended to you all . |
| 23 | This year it is restored to its rightful place of honour and popularity in the Whitla Hall , and we have a special guest attraction . |
| 24 | It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them . |
| 25 | A spokesman for Darlington police said : ‘ We would certainly be interested in talking to this bird when it is returned to its rightful owner . ’ |
| 26 | Normally , when a reader no longer requires a book , it is returned to its location in the stacks , and the second copy of its call-slip , which would have been filed while it was being consulted , is cancelled and stored . |
| 27 | The rate of interest will be determined by Midland Life and will be paid for the period from the date of receipt of your money by Midland Life to the date it is returned to you . |
| 28 | Your consent is required before we can apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us . |
| 29 | Your consent is required before we apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us . |
| 30 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |