Example sentences of "[pron] it be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of this argument is important because we find it repeated when we look at the traditional ways in which it is sought to legitimate private power . |
| 2 | In its latter role , ‘ theory is to be judged by its predictive power for the class of phenomena which it is intended to ‘ explain ’ ' . |
| 3 | This can be a major problem for the sponsors of the Motion if there are not many Members around the House on the day on which it is decided to ‘ put the Motion down ’ or , in other words , to go public with it . |
| 4 | It is organizationally unidirectional , filtering fitfully up the management hierarchy , irrespective of the extent to which it is attuned to the current preoccupations of senior management . |
| 5 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 6 | It states the peerage conferred ( whether it be a barony , a viscountcy , etc. ) and prescribes the mode in which it is to descend to heirs . |
| 7 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
| 8 | A person is entitled to act for the protection of livestock if either the livestock or the land on which it is belongs to him or to any person under whose express or implied authority he is acting ; and he is deemed to be acting for their protection if and only if , either : |
| 9 | In short , linguistics may provide literary theory with the broad outlines of a model , but it can not determine either its detail or the manner in which it is applied to literature . |
| 10 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 11 | As I have explained in Working Paper 43 , and developed in Organizing Resources , this indexing system depends upon the initial production of " features lists " , or lists of subject headings , the subject facets which it is desired to be able to retrieve from the system . |
| 12 | The information function is performed through the magazine Which ? available to subscribers but having a general impact because of its availability in libraries and the extent to which it is referred to and talked about . |
| 13 | After this committee , the Bill returns to the House to be read a third time , after which it is transmitted to the other House and , if successful there , submitted for the Royal Assent . |
| 14 | Detailed analysis shows that the clean surface is relaxed relative to the bulk structure and that the oxygen occupies threefold sites in which it is bound to two first , and one second layer tungsten atoms . |
| 15 | ED 65 states that , if changes in values are not recognised , there should be a positive statement , immediately below the SCFW , that the measure of comprehensive income is incomplete , and an indication of the manner in which it is considered to be incomplete . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , in view of the importance attached to judicial review , we have no knowledge of the frequency with which it is resorted to in Scotland , the matters in respect of which review is sought , or the results of applications . |
| 17 | Outline four ways in which Venus is known to resemble the Earth , and four ways in which it is known to be strikingly different . |
| 18 | This molecule has two possible structures , one within the potassium atom bound to a single oxygen atom and one in which it is attached to two oxygens . |
| 19 | Erm it seems it seems to me that wha what 's crucial here is the er the spirit behind the policy or or rather the the way in which it 's going to be interpreted . |
| 20 | Now tt if you look at it this way , le let's suppose that the Communist Party was successful in its military campaign and it , it takes military control of south China , which it was beginning to then , and did up to nineteen forty eight |
| 21 | Wimpy International Ltd v Warland [ 1988 ] STC 149 had determined that the facts to be considered were : whether an item appeared visually to retain a separate identity ; the degree of permanence with which it had been attached ; the incompleteness of the structure without it ; and the extent to which it was intended to be permanent . |
| 22 | The mill 's equipment was removed many years ago following which it was converted to a row of cottages . |
| 23 | The turbine and the remainder of the mill 's machinery were removed , after which it was relegated to storage and housing pigs ! |
| 24 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 25 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 26 | Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable . |
| 27 | The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] . |
| 28 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 29 | One incidental result of this was that Indirect Rule , the proud and mysterious creation of innumerable men-on-the-spot , upon which it was forbidden to the uninitiated to look , was transformed after years of scrutiny by metropolitan experts into a uniform system of local government , whereby Britain hoped to bring into the orbit of her unresented influence the non-traditional elements which had made their appearance in African society . |
| 30 | The circumstances which imposed on Midland Bank the duty of which it was held to be in breach are not apparent from the report . |