Example sentences of "it be [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded . |
| 32 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 33 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |
| 34 | Any attempt to inject market disciplines must take account of this essential feature of social care ( social work ) if it is to be constructive rather than destructive . |
| 35 | It is to be subjective about an objective situation . |
| 36 | Negotiation should be a planned activity if it is to be efficient . |
| 37 | In the twilight groves and dusty caves there is no sign of what it is to be alive : nothing of love , valour or artistry . |
| 38 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 39 | … It is to be competent where those who control can not be competent , yet it is not to control . |
| 40 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 41 | If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals . |
| 42 | People also need to like advertising if it is to be successful and , again , the results show that people did find the ads funny and enjoyed watching them . |
| 43 | This relationship , if it is to be helpful , must be informed , on our part , by an appropriate purpose , knowledge , self-awareness and clear , consistent boundaries . |
| 44 | But we are convinced that the housegroup group , if it is to be powerful in building people up for the fight , is the place for this . |
| 45 | This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review . |
| 46 | It is to be Nice all over again … ’ |
| 47 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 48 | Where the breach is caused by inadvertent default the more serious the type of breach covered by the clause , the less likely it is to be reasonable . |
| 49 | This may be done by including in the grant of the option a proviso that it is to be void if it is not registered as an estate contract within , say , three months from the date of the lease . |
| 50 | So far in this chapter I have tried to spell out how important it is to be clear where one starts from , where present trends are taking one to , and to be ruthlessly honest about the threats from the competition and from the external environment . |
| 51 | ‘ How dreadfully uncomfortable it is to be ill when one lives alone . |
| 52 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 53 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 54 | Nowadays everybody is aware of how important it is to be fit . |
| 55 | For Locke , then , personal identity consists in an identity of consciousness , and not in the identity of some substance whose essence it is to be conscious . |
| 56 | The longer it stays in the air , the more likely it is to be oxidised acid , the process speeded up by pollutants such as ozone and hydrogen peroxide . |
| 57 | The question that McDowell is pointing to , however , is whether , in the analysis of human communication , Grice 's contribution concerns more what it is to be human than what it is to communicate . |
| 58 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 59 | This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies . |
| 60 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |