Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
2 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
3 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
4 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
5 | Find out how easy it is to get through to the number , the quality of the answers , and the hours during which it operates . |
6 | what it is to walk out into the world . |
7 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
8 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
9 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
10 | Old Florence had left as usual for East Gore to stay with Jim and Jean and ostensibly to clear her verandah room for Tina and the new baby , but really everyone knew it was to get out of the way before all the excitement . |
11 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |