Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region , the far north . |
| 2 | A principle is enunciated which is intended and designed to regulate a certain real situation X. Another principle regulates another real situation , Y. When a novel situation Z arises for which no principle has apparently been specifically designed , the law is determined by examining the extent to which Z is closer to X or to Y. If it is more analogous to X , then the legal principle regulating X will ordinarily be invoked . |
| 3 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 4 | The residents believe the L-plates flock to Henley because it 's a driving test centre , and instructors want to give their pupils a taste of what 's to come . |
| 5 | There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . |
| 6 | I am going to send it to Sarah when it 's finished and the final word on its fate will be hers . |
| 7 | This is as much a story of internally generated reform and state genuflection to Oxbridge as it is of institutional conflict and change . |
| 8 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 9 | Ormanroyd good ball for Speedy and on it goes to Jochim but it 's too long . |
| 10 | The reference here to the ‘ University ’ is almost certainly exclusive to Cambridge but it is possible that Green had in mind its implications in a wider context . |
| 11 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 12 | That shop was taken to Kirkwall and it 's now Boondatoon in Old Scapa Road . |
| 13 | ‘ People come to Soho because it 's busy , ’ says Haig . |
| 14 | I felt as if half of Sheffield expected us to get to Wembley so it is a relief that we 've actually done it . ’ |
| 15 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 16 | Well he says to Raymond but it 's not as if . |
| 17 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 18 | But the fact remains that I retreated to Gullholm because it 's the one place in my world free of the entire sex . ’ |
| 19 | Such is the hostility of Conservative Members to Europe that it is quite mind-boggling . |
| 20 | Well , that would n't apply to Otley but it is the safest way to murder somebody . |
| 21 | And in fact Hartlepool is much more related to Durham than it is to er North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | I entirely agree with er my honourable friend , er not only er is the lower non-wage cost a reason for inward investment being attracted to Britain but it 's also why together with our general economic policy , why workers in Britain enjoy in real terms , some of the best take home pay packets in Europe . |
| 23 | The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really . |
| 24 | That Burgess ' model can not really be accurately applied to Nottingham because it is too rigid in its form . |
| 25 | To , from Marbella to Gibraltar and it 's places that you can stop all along the way |
| 26 | Music lovers should not start feeling apprehensive , for the whole circus moves to London when it is time for the Aldeburgh festival . |
| 27 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 28 | coming to London and it is something to do with television |
| 29 | ‘ Someone takes five copies out of Sarajevo where it is faxed through to Geneva , phoned to Zagreb where it can be relayed by fax to London and it is also printed in Tuzla and Zenica . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 're all going to sail round to Meillerie while it 's fine , ’ Claire said . |