Example sentences of "it is [art] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 2 | It is a tribute to their strength that after all they have been through they are both still together today . |
| 3 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 4 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 5 | Perhaps Andrew 's quirkiness preferred the persistence of the myth rather than the inside story , but with his death the truth must be told , since it is a tribute to his generous nature . |
| 6 | It is a call to us , too , to leave behind us the false self of our own independence , to celebrate how wholly dependent we are upon God . |
| 7 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 8 | Aquinas is right ; and it is a credit to his genius to have put animals so neatly into a perspective consistent with Wittgenstein 's analysis . |
| 9 | A problem , after all , is only so if it is a problem to someone . |
| 10 | But yes if you live er in an area where prostitutes frequent , i it is a problem to you . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is a challenge to our Church to be a more cross-oriented fellowship , living it , and working out what it means . |
| 12 | It is a condition to us receiving the special transitional grant , and as we carried out last year , with drafting the agreement , we have a very short period of time in which to put the agreement together . |
| 13 | It is , however , more than a commitment of our best efforts — it is a commitment to what is best for the object of that love . |
| 14 | I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State is getting in practice and asking the questions to which I give the answers at Question Time , as it is a situation to which he shall have to become accustomed . |
| 15 | It is a key to our lineage , a key to unlock the door of time . |
| 16 | It is a key to his selection process , a key to the training he undertakes , a key to his overall process of management . |
| 17 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 18 | It is a disappointment to him to see the way canoeing is marketed and perceived , particularly the view that people ca n't be coached after a certain level . |
| 19 | Presumably there is justification when a doctor urges his patient to give up a fixed term employment because it is a danger to his health , but what of the tutor who insists that his student give up a vacation job because it will interfere with his studies ? |
| 20 | Even if this not quite what happens in practice , it is a ideal to which citizens and archivists can appeal ( Frost 1991–2 ) . |
| 21 | It is a matter to which statutory services in those areas most affected should be paying serious attention now , since adverse effects on old people 's support systems are predictable . |
| 22 | Then he added : ‘ Perhaps it is a solution to their difficulties . ’ |
| 23 | It is a quotation to which the Home Secretary should listen to which his right hon. Friend the Minister of State should reply : ’ Since the Prior Committee 's report was published , the Government 's Public Order Bill ( now the Public Order Act ) has been brought before Parliament . |
| 24 | In truth , this image was never entirely fair , but it is a testament to our ability to respond to customer demand that , today , a visit to any supermarket bakery is likely to offer you the choice and quality to rival that of any traditional bakers . |
| 25 | All sensible people must with shame agree that it is a disgrace to our nation that we Germans are trying to suppress a German , to whom foreign countries have done justice by their great admiration and even by public acknowledgments in writing . |
| 26 | It is a kindness to them to say that they misled you , Holly , you were their plaything . |
| 27 | His successor as curator , Arthur T. Bolton [ q.v. ] , claimed that ‘ it is no disrespect to his distinguished predecessors in that office to assert that he was the best curator that ever held that position of trust ’ , an opinion that was shared by ( Sir ) John Summerson , who succeeded Bolton . |
| 28 | It is no surprise to me when he is caught . |
| 29 | ‘ It is no surprise to anyone that at a time of severe recession , investment in fixed assets , cars etc , will be weak , ’ said Geoff Evans , managing director of Forward Asset Finance . |
| 30 | It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it . |