Example sentences of "it [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's to Labour you plonker ! |
| 2 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 3 | it 's to early in the afternoon for me really . |
| 4 | it 's to small for one thing in it to pick up ? |
| 5 | Well it 's to runny . |
| 6 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 7 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 8 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
| 9 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 10 | The more open it is to cognitive , interactive and voluntaristic elements , the more misleading seems the whole vocabulary of learning theory as a means of describing it . |
| 11 | This is the only valid state a DC can be in if it is to submitted for assessment by interested LIFESPAN users . |
| 12 | In general , Highlander have found that it is unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support , subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration . |
| 13 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |
| 14 | The mystic 's understanding of this joy at the heart of experience is called visionary ; it is to ordinary human perception as waking is to sleeping ; and this carol , in its excited evocation of the significance of redemption in words and images , answers to this understanding . |
| 15 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 16 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 17 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 18 | The appeal of the goldfish world-wide had been maintained because it is to beautiful , so hardy , and with a very little care , so rewarding to keep . |
| 19 | When Martha compared Sam with Bob Lamb , it was to poor Sam 's detriment . |
| 20 | Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface is covered by ice , which remains as terra incognita to climatologists as it was to 17th-century explorers . |
| 21 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 22 | It was to hot for practising anyway and despite our limited preparations we won both matches in St Thomas and Tortoal quite comfortably . |
| 23 | The US government announced on Aug. 24 that it was to double Estonia 's credit limit for buying grain to US$10,000,000 . |
| 24 | Contact with less advanced elements might well fluctuate , subject as it was to constant police intervention . |
| 25 | Some practitioners complained that it was to difficult to estimate in advance and could lead to aggressive underpricing which may affect the quality of the work . |
| 26 | I 'm , I 'm sorry if it was to difficult to , to follow , either because of the microphones or |
| 27 | When she woke in the morning , it was to clear blue skies , and she gave a sigh of pleasure . |
| 28 | I did n't think I like the cut of it very much or , I think it was to tight . |
| 29 | Of greater moment , it was to precious substances that men turned for currency , since by definition these possessed the prime quality of acceptability . |