Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 2 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 3 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 4 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ A person ‘ keeps ’ a vehicle if he causes it to be stationary on a road when not in use . |
| 5 | For example , a conglomerate in receipt of inside information from an issuer of publicly traded securities may find itself in a position where actual compliance with its disclosure obligations to its retail customers ( ie. , those who wish to buy shares ) in accordance with the equitable principle of undivided loyalty causes it to be liable in an action for breach of confidence to its corporate clients , and guilty of tipping in violation of anti-insider dealing laws . |
| 6 | The official receiver notifies the Chief Land Registrar , gazettes the order and causes it to be advertised in such local newspaper as he thinks fit ( r 6.46(2) ) . |
| 7 | Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite , and can move readily through porous rock and soil and can seep into buildings causing dangerous concentrations to accumulate ( inhaling radon causes it to be deposited in the lungs so increasing the risks of lung cancer ) . |
| 8 | Submission of the SSR causes it to be distributed to all : |
| 9 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 10 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 11 | you would need it to be nine o'clock . |
| 12 | that 's one place you would need it to be washable . |
| 13 | Well do n't you need it to be here ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 16 | She had expected it to be weighted , to feel cold and heavy . |
| 17 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 18 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 19 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |
| 20 | I find it boring , it 's not particularly useful — it 's very academic , more so than I would have expected it to be . |
| 21 | He had not expected it to be so beautiful . |
| 22 | One might have expected it to be either suffocated or swallowed up . |
| 23 | Empty , of course , but then he had n't expected it to be that easy . |
| 24 | It was unoccupied , as he had expected it to be . |
| 25 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 26 | This was not the way he had expected it to be , at all . |
| 27 | To take one example , how will workers respond to the realization that the rate of inflation is not zero , as they had expected it to be , but is in fact positive ? |
| 28 | But then she had n't expected it to be any different . |
| 29 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 30 | ( The Catholic Church , on the other hand , seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible . ) |