Example sentences of "it be [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's on target to reduce the leaks to 15% of supply . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and environmental goals , ’ Mr Patten said — a statement that would have jarred on his predecessor , and , until recently , on the party faithful . |
| 3 | There 're are complicated members of the terror act and it 's not an entirely frivolous suggesting because if you have any doubts that the performance of this County Council in it 's for duty to maintain the rights of way network to a standard appropriate for the traffic , then go and look even at a small part of John 's film . |
| 4 | We have to have some independent arguments about how easy or difficult it is for life to originate on a planet , before we can even begin to answer the question of how many other planets in the universe have life . |
| 5 | It is just as much an abuse of the process of the House for opposition to seek to talk out or filibuster , as it is for government to stifle opposition . |
| 6 | It is for government to say it will not fund us adequately , not for us to go round saying it rather like a lot of sheep . |
| 7 | ‘ It is for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and the environmental goals , ’ said Mr Patten emphatically . |
| 8 | Lord Strathclyde , the minister responsible , said : ‘ It is for parliament to decide the powers , functions and responsibilities of local government . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 10 | It is for Parliament to warrant the expenditure estimated to be needed , i.e. to grant supply . |
| 11 | That 's without mentioning how important it is for Suede to hurtle into people 's lives … |
| 12 | It is for Vendor to take the risk of ‘ intervening events ’ — unless the Vendor is prepared to allow the Purchaser to assume control of the Business at exchange . |
| 13 | It is of benefit to compare all the very early maps one with another , as each will show something different , and there may be anomalies which lead to interesting studies and , quite possibly , new discoveries . |
| 14 | If this is accepted , it is of value to move from the narrow base of this article to consider whether it is so in other areas . |
| 15 | Although I have stressed that one should not keep large amounts of money at home , it is of value to have at least a small amount of emergency money carefully hidden somewhere in the house , say , £20 . |
| 16 | It is of interest to see whether and where the two share common ideas . |
| 17 | If the popular conception of ‘ class ’ does not involve any rigorous or well-elaborated notion of class determination , it is of interest to examine whether people 's self-assignation correlates strongly with certain ‘ objective ’ features of their economic and social location . |
| 18 | Polymer samples are normally polydisperse and it is of interest to examine the type of average molecular weight that might be expected from a measurement of *lsqb ; η ] . |
| 19 | As many of these are readily obtained by simple screening techniques applied to natural sedimentary deposits it is of interest to record the prescribed limitations of the aggregate gradings . |
| 20 | It is of interest to compare the positions of Brumfit and Krashen in this collection , positions which might be said to typify to some degree the attitudes to applied linguistics and language teaching on each side of the Atlantic . |
| 21 | It is of interest to compare Pausanias 's account of Polygnotos 's Troy at Delphi with two earlier vase pictures of the Sack . |
| 22 | It is of interest to refer in this context to Beckett 's ( undated ) empirical work on the adoption practices of Torres Strait Islanders where adoption has traditionally been open . |
| 23 | It is of interest to note that the first item of non-financial business appearing in the records concerned the location of a footpath ! |
| 24 | It is of interest to note that half the current members of the Association of Social Anthropologists express an interest in complex societies . |
| 25 | It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | It is of interest to note that even Maughan and Rutter report one non-selective school with a low ability intake whose pupils ' achievement is broadly comparable with the grammar school averages . |
| 27 | Finally , it is of interest to note that expression of the wnt-1 proto-oncogene can reproduce all the effects of Li + , including the duplication of the dorsal axis , the increase in gap junctional communication between ventral cells , and the restoration of an axis when wnt-1 was expressed on one side of an ultraviolet-irradiated embryo . |
| 28 | It is of interest to note that in seeking to systematize referral procedures Owen has begun to undermine the principle of flexibility which was one of the advantages such provision was thought to have over special schools . |
| 29 | In this context it is of interest to note that male staff in the city 's special units often have sporting interests and a significant number are former PE teachers . |
| 30 | It is of interest to observe that , for stationary axisymmetric space-times , the main field equations can be written in the form of Ernst 's equation ( 11.8 ) , whose solution is considered as a complex potential for the metric functions X and that are obtained from ( 12.36 ) and ( 12.34 ) . |