Example sentences of "it to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 2 | Do n't expect it to be easy because there 's usually a patrol of Rexxon fighters in the area . |
| 3 | We expect it to be good at mathematics , particularly , and also at various other obvious human capabilities . |
| 4 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 5 | This dish has a Valencian shape but the crowded design is Malagan ; neutron activation analysis shows it to be Valencian . |
| 6 | We will teach it to be pure as we count pure , not the vile purity of the world . |
| 7 | For no-one can believe anything unless they previously know it to be believable . |
| 8 | It 's going to be one of the most important days of your life and you want it to be perfect . |
| 9 | It 's presumptuous , you see , for it to be perfect . ’ |
| 10 | But you ca n't expect it to be perfect all the time . |
| 11 | The government rejected this , claiming it to be contrary to the notion of partnership between central and local government which the 1944 Act had established . |
| 12 | The central vision area of the retina needs to be intact for it to be possible to discriminate sharp , fine images . |
| 13 | The coin caused it to be possible that the bar come out . |
| 14 | Eventually enough of these shapes were collected and studied for it to be undeniable that this is just what they must be . |
| 15 | The positive heuristic indicates how the hard core is to be supplemented in order for it to be capable of explaining and predicting real phenomena . |
| 16 | Finally , Solihull teachers generally do not consider that the use of the scheme constitutes any threat to them , believing it to be capable of showing cause for praise as well as blame . |
| 17 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 18 | Except that there was the very disturbing thought lodged somewhere in her mind that she did n't want it to be harmless . |
| 19 | when I pay for a paper I want it to be complete , so I want that piece and I want that , that piece . |
| 20 | Well you 're going to have to because when I pay for a paper , I want it to be complete , so I want that piece and I want th that piece , no wait a minute , where is it ? |
| 21 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 22 | We can therefore generalize from one experiment in which short-term storage is believed to operate to another in which we also believe it to be present . |
| 23 | The Ocean is calm , so calm you could believe it to be lacquered wood rather than water and that if you were in a hurry you could leave the boat and walk to shore . |
| 24 | I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing , |
| 25 | and it 's getting past it to be honest . |
| 26 | And yet it , I was quite happy with it to be honest |
| 27 | I ca n't see anything wrong with it to be honest . |
| 28 | But the Mirror has read a transcript of the 2year-old recording and found much of it to be inconsequential gossip . |
| 29 | He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't expect it to be pleasant , ’ Jessamy retorted . |