Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death .
2 Bobby , and it 's to move their fingers and to use their imagination with pictures .
3 Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand .
4 And it 's to do with everybody 's lives you know it an and I think out of it is c er people are realizing that they can .
5 It 's to do with your everyday life , and it 's to do with this , and that , and the other , and translate that into other things .
6 I 'm not sure it was that brilliant but ha , ha , and it 's to change that law
7 But it 's to help it 's cos she 's a student , and it 's to help towards a special diet .
8 Some of them are fairly minor and it 's to read them .
9 So but there 's one thing ambition and it 's to smash that silly cow in the face !
10 Erm finally , resolution nine which is a special resolution set out in the notice of the meeting er , and it 's to alter the company 's articles to enable the company to issue summary financial statements .
11 Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety
12 This , incidentally , is the fifteenth in the series of great centenaries , held under the auspices of the Centre for Continuing Education , and it is to celebrate the death , and by that token the life and achievements , of the great English poet John Milton , who died in erm sixteen seventy four .
13 The fact is that the relationship between a husband and wife is the highest form of loving commitment between human beings , and it is to serve as a model for children to understand what love and commitment consist of in God 's economy .
14 The Committee has shied away from recommending any sanction more drastic than public censure , such as delisting , for failure to include the statement of compliance , and it is to rely on shareholders to use their influence to ensure compliance with the elements of the code .
15 Er , next is resolution seven which is an ordinary resolution set out in the notice of the meeting , and it is to authorize the directors to amend the company 's employee share schemes in the manner set out in the circular dated eighteenth of April nineteen ninety to members of the company .
16 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
17 Repletion is probably a more pleasurable state for most people than is emptiness , and its metaphorical implications are now widely understood : to be well-fed is to feel safe from poverty and death ; it is to engage in an enjoyable activity ; and it is to feel loved , if only by oneself .
18 I 've got an ambition and it is to grow fat I 'd like to grow like a big fat .
19 And it is to pay him £11,188 the maximum that could have been awarded if the tribunal , which has already sat for ten days in March , found in his favour .
20 It is to learn when fish spawn and avoid disturbing them ; it is not to dig vegetation from the bank ; and it is to work quietly and unobtrusively .
21 In many instances however an alternative form of publication is more appropriate , and it is to provide such a medium that this series of Occasional Papers has been launched .
22 it is the yellow route and it is to provide a bypass .
23 But it is to do with changing the course of history .
24 The club is taking over a second-floor suite of offices on a short-term lease , but it is to continue searching for new premises , almost certainly still in Edinburgh .
25 This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment .
26 But it is to wonder about the sort of book it is .
27 Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved .
28 But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop .
29 This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease .
30 This is not to argue that professionals should try to replicate the process of supporting self-advocacy , but it is to suggest that the aims , mode of operation and the nature of the professional/client working relationship should , at the very least , not be in conflict with the emergence of self-advocacy .
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