Example sentences of "it [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 2 | Does God 's making of himself known have any abiding content which can be articulated , or can it merely be pointed to and fleetingly glimpsed , but not retained ? |
| 3 | 2 Is the product or sample small enough to slip between the pages of the magazine or can it easily be attached to the front cover ? |
| 4 | But of course the pluralist view does not depend for its plausibility upon , nor has it usually been related to , the evidence from stateless societies . |
| 5 | The estate had been willed to another prisoner , a distant cousin , on the clear understanding that should it ever be returned to Jewish hands , the monies and profits taken from it would be devoted to the creation of a Zionist state . |
| 6 | Water features on stage in most of Brook 's productions but I ca n't remember it ever being used to more powerful effect . |
| 7 | Water features on stage in most of Brook 's productions but I ca n't remember it ever being used to more powerful effect . |
| 8 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 9 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 10 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 11 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 12 | Another one is advertised as a ’ sabretooth survival saw ’ and it again is said to be able to pass unnoticed through metal detectors . |
| 13 | This Mr Deputy Speaker , could easily have been accommodation had the bill been brought to the house just seven weeks earlier than it actually was brought to the house , seven weeks were n't the problem . |
| 14 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 15 | Largely concerned with the protection of church and clergy , correct religious observance by ecclesiastics and laymen , and the rendering of church dues , it ends with exhortation : possibly it too was preached to king and court before it received the royal assent . |
| 16 | I threw away the guava core , and it too was torn to pieces by the children . |
| 17 | It too was reduced to quoting the Pilkington Committee 's view that ‘ though standards exist and are recognisable , broadcasting is more nearly an art than an exact science . |
| 18 | It never was designed to be one . |