Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it . |
| 2 | What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound ! |
| 3 | ‘ You must be Mr Sachs , what a pleasure it is to meet you at last . ’ |
| 4 | According to him , there is a strict dualism between mind , whose essence it is to think and perceive , and material , unthinking , extended body . |
| 5 | It 's going into a dictionary it 's to help erm students I suppose but that 's all I can |
| 6 | I now realize what a great honour it is to have this Presidential Chain bestowed on me and I trust that I will be able to uphold and fulfil my obligations as President , particularly when I reflect upon the contributions made by my predecessors . |
| 7 | Man 's fixed fate it is to fall . |
| 8 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 9 | But there is an old part to the town , running east from the harbour , and a delight it is to walk through : Basque urbanism at its most attractive . |
| 10 | And the man in question is not a philosophical or statistical abstraction from reality , but the reality itself ; not a theoretician 's concept to play a mechanical part in a Marxist phenomenology of history or a philosopher-king 's model of ideal society , but flesh and blood ; the thinking and feeling individual whose right it is to make his life , including his working life , as fully as possible his own in a society the essential purpose of which should be to maximise his chances of doing so . |
| 11 | The holding company , General Synod , files a separate set of accounts , as do the Church Commissioners , whose job it is to manage the greater part of the Church 's historical property . |
| 12 | For England and Pakistan to have contested the World Cup final was a marvellous bonus for those whose job it is to sell tickets in advance . |
| 13 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 14 | Whose job it is to sort it all out , varies from problem to problem . |
| 15 | ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’ |
| 16 | In many organisations you will be put through to a secretary whose job it is to filter calls . |
| 17 | In the majority , however , this is the task of the account executive , whose job it is to take the client 's brief , ask the appropriate questions , and translate the brief into clear objectives for the creative team to work to . |
| 18 | The convention is organized by eminent literary critics and support staff include ‘ interpreters ’ whose job it is to facilitate relations between the characters as well as ensuring the smooth running of the convention generally . |
| 19 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 20 | After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them in the great baggage train . |
| 21 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
| 22 | yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything . |
| 23 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 24 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 25 | Well , MCPS have a team of Licence Negotiators whose job it is to negotiate between the producer and our member to arrive at an agreeable rate . |
| 26 | Above all , this fear arises in work where the police encounter outsiders whose job it is to make them appear wrong or incompetent — mostly court duty . |
| 27 | whose job it is to make the decision about how to deal with it . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is exemplified by the very fact that there is a Microsoft Upgrade Centre in the UK , whose job it is to make it easier for the end user to upgrade to the latest release of any product . |
| 29 | The maintainers are those people whose job it is to make sure that the functionality , performance , documentation and quality of the software are appropriate to its purpose . |
| 30 | This course is primarily designed to help CPRW branch committee members whose job it is to get local campaigning activities into the news . |