Example sentences of "it to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 2 | The entry for number 291 , a portrait of a woman , is a fair example of method : ‘ The quality of ( the picture ) seems sufficiently high for it to be acceptable as from Cranach 's own hand . |
| 3 | Flanner is rather sparing about details of Picasso 's personal life , knowing it to be so extensively documented . |
| 4 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 5 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 6 | The Prospect Inn has two of its decorative lino floors intact , although the owners , Whitbread , destroyed the original pole sign outside when the tenants asked for it to be repaired . |
| 7 | First thing this morning , Martha put a fifty-pound note into the pocket of an apron you subsequently wore , thinking it to be yours . ’ |
| 8 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 9 | There is no irony in this ; indeed this is firmly in line with many similar statements collected in fieldnotes , which consider it to be totally inappropriate for policemen to mirror the style of the locals if they wear track suits or jeans or sport longer hair and beards . |
| 10 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 11 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 12 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 13 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 14 | I found it to be quiet , even when under pressure , and the hooked power pack means that it can be hung conveniently out of the way . |
| 15 | This enables it to be easily removed for winter storage or recoating with a wood preservative . |
| 16 | Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ . |
| 17 | Or is it to be a full-length ballet with a maximum use of dancers ? |
| 18 | Or is it to be told by mimed dance and/or danced mime ? |
| 19 | Residents near the Tynemouth Metro station venue had originally lobbied for it to be cancelled . |
| 20 | But since Crime and Punishment encompasses the drinking as well as the confessional theme , we can approach Dostoevsky 's abiding human question — what is it to be a man ? — also by way of the minuscule Drunks fragment : |
| 21 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I take it to be a product of the myth I described above : ‘ I am fighting against the entrenched forces of insular stupidity , and I call upon the French to aid me ! ’ |
| 24 | Again , Pound 's admirers will protest ; and they will be right , insofar as Yeats 's account of the Cantos is n't so definitive as Olson takes it to be . |
| 25 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 26 | But people seem to think that stories are written to a prescription , that you sit down and say , you do n't want it to be sexist , you do n't want it to be racist . |
| 27 | But people seem to think that stories are written to a prescription , that you sit down and say , you do n't want it to be sexist , you do n't want it to be racist . |
| 28 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 29 | He added : ‘ This will be the pattern for future similar investments , and because it is a welding together of all those strands of interest which the Prince of Wales has , we consider it to be a very exciting new venture . ’ |
| 30 | Voltaire 's work is , arguably , offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available . |