Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he calculated that it had to be worth it , that such casualties would be minor compared with those which would result from a prolonged , slogging , hand-to-hand battle . |
| 2 | Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours , and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order . |
| 3 | Fortunately for the Labour Party , the position of the Tories as the party of government was less secure that it appeared to be in the late '50s . |
| 4 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 5 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 6 | We believe that these findings suggest that osmolality is the key determinant of water absorption in both normal and secreting intestine and that it seems to be of particular importance in the secretory state . |
| 7 | The norm of " the language as a whole " is not the objective reality that it seems to be in Bloch 's definition , and some less absolute standard of comparison has to be found ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 8 | The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment . |
| 9 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |