Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 2 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 3 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 4 | Er , I think there are certain papers well further down er , the agenda that , that might be taken to P A G as well , in relation to capital programmes , so if , if we can possibly speak about the generality of the capital programme because I think the idea is that it goes to P A G for refinements . |
| 5 | One limitation of the book is that it related to UK names only . |
| 6 | The most likely understanding of this letter is that it relates to the subscription proposals . |
| 7 | And the reason for this , is that it belongs to a tradition , a fashion if you like , of writing , which went dramatically out of , out of fashion immediately after World War One . |
| 8 | The main problem with nitrogen oxide is that it contributes to forms of photochemical pollution such as ozone , which in high levels can cause eye , nose and throat irritation and affect the respiratory system attacking the lungs . |
| 9 | The point about folklore is that it has to be interpreted . |
| 10 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 11 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 12 | But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages . |
| 13 | ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says . |
| 14 | One feature of the genetic decoding mechanism is that it appears to be irreversible . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough 's article is that it needed to be said . |
| 16 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 17 | The ‘ Principles ’ of his title are those ‘ of Human Knowledge ’ , and what motivates his objection to materialism is that it leads to scepticism and atheism . |
| 18 | At roughly the same time Terence said , ‘ Another objection to Christianity is that it leads to passive acceptance of social inequalities because the real rewards are in … ’ |
| 19 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 20 | The great claim made for perfect competition is that it leads to efficiency . |
| 21 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 22 | The disadvantage of the latter is that it leads to an untidy looking diagram , although it will reveal lower terraces obscured by high ground in the foreground . |
| 23 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |
| 24 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 25 | is that it tends to be women who do more of it . |
| 26 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 27 | Secondly , a distinguishing characteristic of negligence liability ( and indeed of the legal approach in general ) is that it attaches to single episodes of management failure . |
| 28 | One argument in favour of the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment is that it amounts to a symbolic indication of the unique heinousness of murder . |
| 29 | Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere . |
| 30 | The thing to remember is your last little note is that it seems to be that they 're accusing him of blasphemy as it was said . |