Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking up the surface is well worth avoiding , firstly to save it and give yourself another heavenly run tomorrow , and secondly because when your edges start to catch it 's not much fun to ski and can be dangerous . |
| 2 | The way to tighten it is when you 're on a beat , just pull it in as the tension is taken by the mainsheet . |
| 3 | the shopping and the cooking and the sa , she made a remark , abo , and I said well it 's always the same even if you go out to work it 's still your job |
| 4 | People climb the staircase only to find it is n't a staircase at all . |
| 5 | In the electronics industry that Wild and Hill studied particularly , female turnover rates showed a high relationship with job satisfaction/dissatisfaction : many women , like many men , express a need for personally satisfying work and the failure to find it is often a reason for changing one 's job . |
| 6 | They land on the volcanic planet of Tigus only to discover it is not the Daleks but their old foe from 1066 , the Time Meddling Monk . |
| 7 | Well , I 'd like you to know it is n't true . |
| 8 | I was bored with it long ago , and so relieved to know it is really done at last . ’ ) |
| 9 | Nice to know it 's not too far distant . |
| 10 | Upstairs in the workshop , there is an air of quiet panic mingled with excitement because nothing is quite ready for the upcoming show , but it 's near enough to know it 's all going to be just divine . |
| 11 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 12 | Now I do n't want you to extract this , I , but I want you to know it 's there , because it has a , a specific purpose , which you will come on to later . |
| 13 | Erm , I think what erm the purpose for me , anyway , or the effect of under setting up the Gothic in detail and then undermining it , is that when you do allow it to stand it 's much more effective . |
| 14 | But it 's important to remember it 's not painful because something is wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ The important thing , ’ he quoted almost to himself , ‘ is to remember it 's not brute force with a fixed-spool reel ; just a controlled flick . ’ |
| 16 | Seems to overlap it 's just slightly longer is n't it ? |
| 17 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 18 | We know that there are in principle X young people who could qualify for that entitlement — that information is available from the census — but their choice whether or when to exercise it is not predictable . |
| 19 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't show much sign of injury , ’ he said , ‘ but as it was on the side of the road I think it 's safe to assume it 's just one more traffic casualty . ’ |
| 21 | Because the source is less easy to trace it is more difficult to judge the legitimacy of the rumour . |
| 22 | to do it 's not very dangerous . |
| 23 | You know what to do it 's so funny . |
| 24 | Well if the definition of salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in a particular volume of water , perhaps the logical way to do it is simply to take a volume of water and evaporate it and weigh the amount of salt that 's left so that might be the simplest approach . |
| 25 | Being the first to do it is n't just an ego thing , it 's also breaking new ground . |
| 26 | And the who 's going to do it is not determined until a couple of days before either party knows . |
| 27 | For my tastes , watching the boats go by is one of life 's happiest pleasures , and the best place in the world to do it is undoubtedly Venice , the supreme and eternal sea-city . |
| 28 | Martin Glen , at Lehman Brothers , disagrees : ‘ In terms of realising value , it would have been nice to pick the top of the market , but in terms of business necessity , the best time to do it is as soon as possible , ’ he says . |
| 29 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 30 | That 's the only time I 'm gon na get to do it in n it ? |