Example sentences of "it be [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 This entails an awareness of the mutability of this world , and an awareness of what elements in it are permanently to be valued .
2 It 's yet to be seen whether Jodami , yesterday 's Gold Cup winner will ever achieve the status of these two greats .
3 It 's yet to be seen if the report will have an unpleasnat side effect on sales .
4 ‘ The county council has been working there recently , putting up fencing all along it because it 's soon to be opened up as official footpath on a new part of the Teesdale Way , ’ said Mrs Brown .
5 I do n't I mean probably it 's just to be to the safe side .
6 They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend .
7 It 's ne'er to be mowed by me again
8 And I know full well now what it 's like to be standing on a picket line for seven months .
9 I mean the thing is at the age of sixty he has no conception of what it 's like to be your age at this period .
10 Actually that would be a better representation of what it 's like to be the
11 mhm Well you 've told me a bit about what 's it 's like to be inside Kuwait , what about the Kuwaitis outside Kuwait ?
12 It 's entirely to be expected .
13 ‘ Of course you 'll have to , ’ Father Devlin boomed cheerfully , ‘ it 's only to be expected . ’
14 " And Martha 's the same , it 's only to be expected at her age . "
15 it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart
16 John wrote to Hanns at the end of May that Tamara Karsavina , a former star of the Diaghilev Ballet , was planning to use Brae and Carter in a ballet ‘ for some small society … and it 's then to be repeated when Alan Carter is away on tour — and she 's trying me out !
17 Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket .
18 It 's , it 's , it 's there to be read and to be worked to .
19 If you leave it too long it 's there to be seen the rest of the day .
20 It 's all to be found within the borders of Thailand … a country rich in history , blessed with sun-drenched beaches and filled with charming people .
21 After that the pacey plot leaves the audience wondering who is engaged to whom , who is to marry whom , who wrote the love poems and why and how it 's all to be unravelled before the final curtain .
22 It is rather to be traced to the survival of feudal notions of lordship .
23 you 're , you 're not saying that it , it , it , it is simply to be struck down without reference to any under lying
24 Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed .
25 It is thus to be welcomed that a number of studies have appeared which examine the nature of the early twentieth century Conservative party and which stress the importance of Conservative ideas in understanding the Party 's development during its period of crisis .
26 ‘ You may give me a kiss , dear Mary , since it is soon to be your birthday . ’
27 But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all .
28 Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found .
29 We propose that that process should be concluded not later than April , but it is immensely to be hoped that it can be done far more speedily .
30 Secretan arrived at the same conclusion : ‘ It is scarcely to be wondered at that youthful craving for variety and excitement sometimes leads gangs of boys to try and put a little colour into their leisure hours in ways which lead to conflict with authority or to degradation of character .
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