Example sentences of "it is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 2 | So , it is to the critics themselves we turn next . |
| 3 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 4 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 5 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 6 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 7 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 8 | Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English . |
| 9 | It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative . |
| 10 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 11 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 12 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 13 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 14 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 15 | Dance movement in every form and style must be correctly parsed and expressed if it is to be clearly understood whether its message is simple , subtle , bold , comic or tragic . |
| 16 | Any untoward or awkward transition is immediately noticeable because it destroys the calm dignity that the human body needs if it is to be shown at its best . |
| 17 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 18 | It is to this tradition , I have suggested , that Scrutiny was indebted . |
| 19 | So it is to Mr Binyon that I owe , initially , |
| 20 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 21 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 22 | To ban research on a fertilised egg unless it is to be reimplanted , and in the same Bill wish to permit abortion up to 18 weeks demonstrates the movement 's illogicality . |
| 23 | Sources within Coopers suggest that Deloitte in Australia will shortly announce it is to side with Coopers , and the firm is confident that the Canadians will follow suit . |
| 24 | It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton . |
| 25 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 26 | It is to be hoped that is so . |
| 27 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 28 | Other parts of the working ‘ common sense ’ of the police in Easton are the typifications and recipe knowledge which they employ when doing policing , and it is to this that we now turn . |
| 29 | Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved . |
| 30 | Eric Abbott prophesied falsely , ‘ It is to be the great work of your life ’ . |