Example sentences of "to [pron] it be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be the middle of the afternoon to you , to me it 's evening — and the end of a very long day . ’ |
| 2 | I mean if it , if it I mean originally he said to me it was part time so I thought to myself well that 'll be perfect , just get her back into the flow again . |
| 3 | To me it was business , nothing more , nothing less . |
| 4 | Oh a long time , er , matter of years really before I could settle down at , as I say to me it was roots |
| 5 | As for the bare infinitive , a significant generalization concerning its meaning has been arrived at — the notion of coincidence in time between the infinitive and the verb to which it is incident , with the latter being inconceivable as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 6 | The notion of absence of a before/after relation between the bare infinitive and the verb to which it is incident can be applied quite readily to its use with auxiliary do , if one takes into account the peculiar nature of auxiliaries . |
| 7 | In short , the marked growth recorded by the CDA in the industrial co-operative sector has occurred in spite of the special impediment to which it is subject . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The Building ( Scotland ) Act 1959 defines " warrant " as meaning a warrant under s.6 of the Act , including ( in the case of a warrant which has been granted ) any conditions to which it is subject , and any amendment which has been made to it . |
| 9 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 10 | The room in which they were sitting underwent the curious shrinking process to which it was subject whenever he was reminded of Wyvis Hall or his Uncle Hilbert or even if the county of Suffolk were mentioned . |
| 11 | Tarradellas was influential in negotiating a statute of autonomy for the region reconciling Catalonia 's traditionally republican aspirations with the demands of the monarchy to which it was subject . |
| 12 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 13 | Well firstly we need to it it 's part of our training . |
| 14 | Oh dear , and I 'm saying to myself it was chicken pox |