Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 2 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |
| 3 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 4 | And it is also to send out £60,000 worth of equipment to provide back-up for power supplies to textile machinery at a factory on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Lagos . |
| 5 | ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’ |
| 6 | Every bend reveals another staggering visual feast and it is all to do with the light , the dynamic mountain ridges , the pure white sandy beaches and the undisturbed peace . |
| 7 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 8 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 9 | The devils urged that she should kill herself and be damned with them in Hell , and it was evidently to contain her attempts at suicide that she was ‘ bound and kept with strength day and night ’ ; even then she ‘ rived the skin on her body against her heart with her nails most spitefully ’ . |
| 10 | ( The concept of invariance was definitely the " in " subject at the time and it was later to provide a central idea in the theory of relativity . ) |
| 11 | The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat . |
| 12 | It was this version of the union treaty that was to have been signed by Russian and other representatives on 20 August , and it was apparently to prevent this weakening of central authority , particularly in military and budgetary matters , that the attempted coup was launched one day beforehand . |
| 13 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 14 | Erm , it 's only general filling er , and it was mainly to develop assertiveness skills and confidence in putting forward your own ideas . |
| 15 | Its origins lay in the Poor Law and it was never to lose that association . |
| 16 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 17 | But it is also to channel changes , as with the types of business entities envisaged by the Company Act . |
| 18 | We have got to live with it , hopefully we can put barriers up but it is here to stay and it will get worse . |
| 19 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 20 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact exactly the whip the jockeys use , but it is there to stop our horses running out or refusing . |
| 22 | But it is really to support her — he seems fine . ’ |
| 23 | The person that is , is head of our unit is , is Carol and she 's known as Principal Policy Co-Ordinator and she report 's directly to the General Manager Der Erm , then we have three teams within the Local Government Unit , we have a Policy Team and I 'm the team leader for the Policy Team and I 'll talk about , I 'll talk about our work later , but it 's just to explain who we are . |
| 24 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 25 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |
| 26 | But it 's how to do it that 's the problem . |
| 27 | But it 's down to head though is n't it ? |
| 28 | We may think so , but it 's usually to benefit ourselves . |
| 29 | I know you probably do n't want to hear her name ever again and if that 's what you want that 's my promise , but it 's all to do with London is n't it ? |
| 30 | We give them their induction pack ( see page 41 ) to look at later , but it 's really to get to know the layout , because we have quite a large building . |