Example sentences of "it be [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
| 2 | Any attempt to unite them would , therefore , have to be carefully planned if it were to win the acquiescence of the parties involved . |
| 3 | It 's to stop the punters getting thrust onto the coals and roasted . |
| 4 | Well , the figures are there , it 's , it 's following the , the very substantial debate that took place at the last County Council meeting , on the issue of earnings within Shropshire , it 's to give the Committee a bit more detailed information about the position , and , and particularly I think , the position about female earnings in the County er , where we 're , we 're really at the bottom of , of the U K lists . |
| 5 | As thousands of bargain hunters queued up to two hours for a sale of stock damaged by a fire at Dickens and Jones in Milton Keynes , the store announced it 's to halt the sale of animal furs . |
| 6 | Tell me was I dreaming or did I see a sketch on T V where there 's a car driving round , down the road being chased by the police and the driver said to the passenger er here take this and he says what 's that for and he says it 's to steer the car , presses a button and the car splits |
| 7 | Say it 's to drain the West Bog . " |
| 8 | It 's to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers , but most of you this morning , feel that to pay the existing licence fee is far too much , so I 'd like to hear more views on that please , and also I 'd like to hear from Spurs fans especially , and football fans in general , your memories , your tributes to the late , great Danny Blanchflower . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's to escape the traffic wardens who are paid on commission , ’ he says . |
| 10 | no I think that it 's to get the vocabulary various classes of people and varies age group |
| 11 | Well it 's beg it 's to get the words in everyday conversation |
| 12 | It 's to rest the voice , you know . |
| 13 | Marie says it 's to keep the noise in , but I do n't reckon it works too well , cos you can hear them all over the house when they practise . |
| 14 | It 's to keep the cold out of your bones . ’ |
| 15 | No , I mean , it 's prot it 's to protect the bag . |
| 16 | It 's to shame the rest of the Dharjees , because they say that Dharjees flout Islamic law ! ’ |
| 17 | Erm finally , resolution nine which is a special resolution set out in the notice of the meeting er , and it 's to alter the company 's articles to enable the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 18 | The idea is , is not to make any judgements about you people , for instance , the whole thing is totally anonymous but it 's to hear the state of the language as it is , I I assume , at the moment , and what 's going to happen is , they 're collecting a massive quantity of erm , of words . |
| 19 | It 's to pay the bills — but then , you would n't know anything about that , would you ? ’ |
| 20 | Councillors decided to press ahead with the prosecutions despite the Government 's recent announcement that it 's to review the Sunday Trading laws . |
| 21 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 22 | ‘ Separate beds it is to minimise the infection , as much liquids as they can take , except milk . |
| 23 | But it is not such a quantum leap to understand two cooking media as it is to grasp the principles of some multi-task ovens which appear to have nearly as many functions as the ubiquitous Swiss army knife . |
| 24 | And in focusing on some problem areas it 's possible to fail to give an impression of the enormous privilege it is to serve the church and her lord in social responsibility . |
| 25 | Basically just to put some flesh on the bones of what Michael has said that that is a view of the w of the Greater York study that erm the A sixty four south corridor is more likely er to er serve the needs of Leeds then it is to serve the needs of of of York . |
| 26 | It is much easier to show a child how to draw , how to compose a Picture , how to use colour , than it is to allow the child full self expression . |
| 27 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 28 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 29 | It is to give the impression of the tank being larger from front to back . |
| 30 | It is to facilitate the translation of the dramas of sub-conversation and activity below the surface of consciousness that she abandons the conventions of linear narrative , normal chronology , plot and characterization . |