Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 A slightly more oblique approach to the problem of determining whether a contextually unique item is a semantic constituent is to see whether it is normal in the language to treat it in parallel with unquestionable semantic constituents .
2 The only comfort is to remember that it is usually foreseeable and quite unnecessary .
3 The importance of this approach is to suggest that it is perceptions that are important and depending on how the management views the worker then a different style of management will develop and a different set of relationships between the management and the workforce will exist .
4 Right , now this thing here what you have to e , do , have to do is to imagine that it 's an alkane with this oxygen containing group butane .
5 Men of science want to know everything there is to know , do everything there is to do whether it 's turning a cow into beef burgers in 10 minutes flat or creating the ‘ ultimate ’ erotic experience ; men do it all in the name of progress .
6 Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture .
7 The important thing is to recognise that it is happening and take the relevant action .
8 For example the most usual constraint we impose on ourselves is to believe that it is incumbent on us to carry out all the steps of a manufacturing process ourselves .
9 So if the board is to ensure that it is project managing the change effectively , it must have non-financial internal information too .
10 This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect .
11 The responsibility of the brother , sister , or best friend who organizes the bachelor party is to ensure that it is a happy event for the guest of honour , and that the jokes , entertainment and gifts do not embarrass those present or absent who will hear about the party later , or imperil the relationship between the engaged couple .
12 My reaction to both these problems is to consider whether it is better to concentrate on using private organisations both for training and for publications .
13 With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem .
14 For Paffard to ask whether a piece of writing is " literature " is to ask whether it is " good " .
15 But I would say that the way to look at this site is to ask whether it is part of the built area , in other words whether it is built on , or whether it is not part of the built area , in other words it is not built on .
16 The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is .
17 The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally .
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