Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be helpful to know that it is planned that low flying by jets will decline by about 30 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ And now to know that it is haunted makes me a little apprehensive . ’ |
| 3 | that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter . |
| 4 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 5 | If a correction is made , consumers have the right to demand that it is notified to people who have had information during the previous six months . |
| 6 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 7 | Erm , in the letter that you s sending by fax tomorrow , you tend to indicate that it is held while the matter 's sorted . |
| 8 | ‘ If a child ca n't see how it 's performing , ’ demanded Mr Stannard , ‘ how 's it to know if it 's doing well or not ? |
| 9 | We 've never admitted involvement , neither has he , I want to know if it 's going to stay that way . |
| 10 | look 's like that an all , I want to know if it 's going in weekly or monthly |
| 11 | Critical consents are those which it is essential for the purchaser to obtain if it is to conduct the business after completion . |
| 12 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 13 | Well we know how to , how to work when it 's add . |
| 14 | What judgements could the audience be asked to pass when it is played back ? |
| 15 | It is easy to see that it is intended to be consistent . |
| 16 | We are then in a better position to take steps to see that it is achieved . |
| 17 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 18 | By questioning the idea of language as a total representation of what it signifies , deconstruction refuses to limit the play of language , refuses to acknowledge that it is controlled by a centre — an author , a historic identity , the subject which it is representing . |
| 19 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 20 | The sad truth of the matter is that Group 4 has such low levels of performance to live up to that already , despite its much publicised failures , the Home Secretary is able to claim that it is outperforming the public services it is replacing . |
| 21 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 22 | Erm Mr Davis referred to N Y one erm in his er statement there , in the interests of saving paper I just wanted to er to state that it is included as appendix one |
| 23 | This will make it easier to clean once it is soiled . |
| 24 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 25 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 26 | That is the bit to destroy as it is stopping the development of the picture . |
| 27 | It then starts off on another ‘ rodent-run ’ , watching to see if it is followed . |
| 28 | Let's say the next letter is e ( i.e. candidate string be ) — look down the 5th of the 26 pointers from the ‘ b ’ node to see if it is set , and so on , until the end of the candidate string is reached . |
| 29 | Every time it rains you look out the window to see if it 's going to happen again . |
| 30 | The modem has no on/off switch and relies on detecting the state of the DTR line ( pin 20 ) to see if it 's required . |