Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather appeared to be a slight but inconsistent preference for mucosal IgG1 production also in Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | ‘ A bit , but it mostly seems to be with rats and hedgehogs and seaweed . ’ |
| 3 | But the fact that an error can be explained , even an unavoidable error , does not mean that it thereby ceases to be an error . |
| 4 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 5 | An hour later , the kitchen volunteers go back into action again to finish the Christmas meal for the evening , as it all has to be reheated and served . |
| 6 | Approximately £20M of the business margin is invested in this way but , whereas in the past such research was judged by its technical excellence and general relevance to the nuclear programmes , today it all has to be justified in terms of market requirements and the likely return on investment . |
| 7 | Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower . |
| 8 | It only remains to be seen whether the customers will buy it . |
| 9 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 10 | It only seems to be things I know already … . |
| 11 | We used to sell it but now it only seems to be Boots — I know it is still popular . ’ |
| 12 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 13 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 14 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 15 | So does it only seem to be |
| 16 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 17 | Only in the most narrow sense is dramatic experience direct : one way of putting it is that drama is not itself direct , it only appears to be . |
| 18 | It only needs to be a couple of shelves but think of all the thrills , spills and adventures you can pack into that space . |
| 19 | To capture the ways in which the play points forward , it obviously needs to be set firmly in its period . |
| 20 | So really when he well it obviously wants to be in the place where you want it . |
| 21 | er one that occurs to me , no , no speaking on it myself , the jury might be interested , sometime I just like to get a feel of what a brochure looks like , not divided as it obviously has to be here , could , could we see a couple sometime , not , not now |
| 22 | Similarly , there is nothing intrinsically right about Farmer and Parker 's typology of children affected ; it merely seems to be a revealing distinction . |
| 23 | To see that there is a take up of the car contract hire scheme , it constantly has to be held , or kept unde , the scheme has to be kept under review , to make sure that it is attractive and it is what er , the employees want to see , and would prefer rather than an alternate means of transport . |
| 24 | Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ? |
| 25 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 26 | You go for these people and ask for a board and this sort of thing it 's just , it just gets to be demeaning , the practice manager should have , should have |
| 27 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 28 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 29 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 30 | Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting . |