Example sentences of "it be [prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems … ’ he shrugged , as if it were beyond words to say . |
| 2 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 3 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 4 | But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk . |
| 5 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 6 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 7 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 8 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 9 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 10 | It is for ministers to determine themselves , whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they make an oral statement . |
| 11 | It is for others to offer moral guidance to the newly prosperous Pharisees . |
| 12 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 13 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 14 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 15 | For example , there is some disagreement about how wise it is for parents to intervene in their children 's quarrels , given that parental attention might unwittingly reinforce quarrelling . |
| 16 | It is for lawyers to make a reality of the single market for UK enterprises , wherever in the Community they choose to locate their business activities , or to sell their goods and services . |
| 17 | It is for employers to set up suitable pension arrangements for their employees . |
| 18 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 19 | At the level of parliament , the news media and opinion poll data , management of the national economy has been the dominant issue in British politics for much of the post-war period and however important it is for socialists to insist that ‘ the political ’ be given a broader definition , they can not afford to be silent on so important a concern . |
| 20 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 21 | It is for schools to work out balanced programmes for themselves , and the pressure is on to find ways of convincingly managing ever-increasing demands . |
| 22 | Hard as it is for bosses to accept it , head office delivers many services in the same way as would an outside subcontractor . |
| 23 | Alliant Computer Systems Corp , Littleton , Massachusetts is liquidating , and says it is in talks to sell parts of its technology and its service business to a third party . |
| 24 | Lotus Development Corp is declining to comment on a report in the US edition of the Wall Street Journal on Friday that it is in talks to add a database management system to its product line by buying privately-held Approach Software Corp . |
| 25 | In this concluding section , we shall look at three quite different examples to see how difficult it was for scholars to achieve a total separation , even assuming they wanted it . |
| 26 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 27 | The judge explained to the jury that the interests of the state were those of the government of the day and it was for ministers to decide the policies of the government . |
| 28 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |
| 29 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether at this stage even John Barratt envisaged it being driven all the way to the veins at Paddy End — as indeed it was in years to come . |