Example sentences of "is it [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But how is it to be done ? |
2 | Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’ |
3 | No longer is it to be seen as an age of poverty , disease and false hopes . |
4 | Sunderland has n't yet achieved the fame it deserves for being Britain 's newest city nowhere is it to be seen on York station 's platform timetables . |
5 | Is it to go to all the members of your organisation , is it to be read by the Board of Directors only , is it to be studied by the upper echelon of the scientific staff , or is it for the eyes of your boss only ? |
6 | What is it to be treated as a child ? |
7 | But the return is required , it 's on page twenty seven of the document , and how is it to be achieved ? |
8 | Is it to be assumed that his very presence amounts to an implied threat ? |
9 | Is it to be given to ensure that everyone has the correct drawing or to save time ? |
10 | Many groan frequently , saying , " Woe to our days , because the zeal for letters has died among us , nor is it to be found in those people who can set present events down in writing " . |
11 | However , is it to be reduced to two batteries — one in Coleraine and the other in Belfast — as originally planned , bearing in mind the tremendous tradition that regiment has ? |
12 | Or is it to be videoed in front of a live audience with the risk of loosing some of the dialogue ? |
13 | — Is it to be used in class , or as an evaluation tool ? |
14 | Is it to go to all the members of your organisation , is it to be read by the Board of Directors only , is it to be studied by the upper echelon of the scientific staff , or is it for the eyes of your boss only ? |
15 | How is it to be dealt with ? |
16 | Or is it to be told by mimed dance and/or danced mime ? |
17 | In all of what conceptual situations , so to speak , is it to be supposed that we have a single conception rather than several related ones ? |
18 | Nor , however , is it to be submitted to the terrorism or plain language , that mythical weapon or those who prefer the comforting repetition or the ideological caress ; who do not want to READ . |
19 | How is it to be performed ? |
20 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
21 | How is it to be graded so that it can be made accessible ? |
22 | How and where is it to be got rid of ? |
23 | Is it to be wondered at that I demean myself thus to take notice of her ? |
24 | 4 How is the discounted product to be dispatched and how is it to be protected en route ? |