Example sentences of "it to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The closest thing that I can compare it to is the film . |
| 2 | Something which is liked by the first person you show it to is likely to appeal to many more people . |
| 3 | ‘ The thought of having the baby without a home to take it to is awful , ’ the 22-year-old mum says . |
| 4 | Well my brother the only person he does it to is him . |
| 5 | The other market for CICS/2 may do something — the company hopes to sell it to are those businesses ‘ upsizing ’ their applications . |
| 6 | Er just pay it to Are are we talking about er s subs ? |
| 7 | Faced with arguably the most reactionary piece of legislation this century , with its major implications for basic civil liberties and education , not to mention lesbians and gay men , Labour reduced it to being for or against the ‘ promotion ’ of homosexuality . |
| 8 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 9 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 10 | It has been our experience that our car service patients like and appreciate the service they receive , and actually prefer it to being carried by ambulance . |
| 11 | Now people start getting very involved with this cos squared and integrating it to being cos cubed . |
| 12 | One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything . |
| 13 | The only format that looked appropriate to save it to was ‘ tiff ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Flanner is rather sparing about details of Picasso 's personal life , knowing it to be so extensively documented . |
| 17 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 18 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First thing this morning , Martha put a fifty-pound note into the pocket of an apron you subsequently wore , thinking it to be yours . ’ |
| 21 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . ) |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This enables it to be easily removed for winter storage or recoating with a wood preservative . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Or is it to be a full-length ballet with a maximum use of dancers ? |