Example sentences of "it [be] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to participate and support anything that encourages charities to strive for the highest standards . |
| 2 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 3 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 4 | Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing . |
| 5 | Attribute data is most often obtained in computer-readable form direct from agencies whose function it is to collect and distribute such data . |
| 6 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 7 | He 's forgotten what it is to sit and hold hands among the buttercups . |
| 8 | The law must resort to some kind of moral and social evaluation of conduct if it is to identify and separate out the most heinous killings . |
| 9 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 10 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 11 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 12 | And all you 've got ta do is , with machine is put petrol or diesel or whatever it is to make and check all the oil |
| 13 | ( c ) Registration Section 8 of the 1983 Act thrusts upon various local authorities the duty to appoint a ‘ registration officer ’ whose task it is to prepare and publish each year a register of electors in his area ( ibid , s.9 ) . |
| 14 | It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation . |
| 15 | According to him , there is a strict dualism between mind , whose essence it is to think and perceive , and material , unthinking , extended body . |
| 16 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 17 | The abstract principle of feeding is very simple : it is to find and catch food for yourself , while not being caught as food by another . |
| 18 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 19 | How hard it was to resist that look ! |
| 20 | The section provides that it was to continue and to prevent the owner from enforcing against the occupier a right to possession otherwise than by proceedings in court . |
| 21 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 22 | Eliot said Ayling believed the sale of the lease would have brought the paper the huge sum of money it needed to refurbish the part of the building it was to retain and to update its rather old-fashioned equipment . |
| 23 | When Harry looked round , it was to see that Mossop too was early for their appointment . |
| 24 | it was always easier to sent fast than it was to receive or read the code . |
| 25 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 26 | These included minimizing the deployment of the plainclothes units — the so-called " Skeleton Corps " — whose function it was to pursue and arrest protesters , reducing the use of tear gas , and prohibiting the use by riot police of equipment ( such as steel pipes ) other than that which had been officially provided . |
| 27 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 28 | ‘ I am glad to hear it , ’ he said , thinking how like Araminta it was to try and leave Theda totally unattended . |
| 29 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 30 | A few doors down from his own room sat a Co-ordinator of Intelligence whose task it was to try and keep MI6 , 5 and the true military organisations from duplicating each other 's efforts and spitting in each other 's beer . |