Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you have a kid , a little baby boy , and the best you can do with it is to name it John ? |
| 2 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 3 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 4 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 5 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 6 | What a waste it is to depersonalise it . |
| 7 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 8 | Weeds may get in the way early on and should be dealt with before they swamp your seedlings and small plants — the smaller they are when hoed off , the quicker and easier it is to do it . |
| 9 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 10 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 11 | Whose job it is to sort it all out , varies from problem to problem . |
| 12 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 13 | In the end , said , ‘ it 's all about getting to know the client 's business and having a partner assigned to that client whose job it is to know it and what it does or does not want ’ . |
| 14 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 15 | His ignorance of what she feels about his ‘ human kindness ’ — she rejects any ‘ compunctious visiting of nature ’ ( 44 ) — makes him a victim , or accomplice , who has to be instructed in hypocrisy : One of Shakespeare 's problems in having to develop an evil conspiracy in the absence of any vocal moral commentary on it is to make it judge or condemn itself . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is exemplified by the very fact that there is a Microsoft Upgrade Centre in the UK , whose job it is to make it easier for the end user to upgrade to the latest release of any product . |
| 17 | But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo . |
| 18 | Even I know that , painful though it is to admit it . ’ |
| 19 | It 's just as dangerous to strain the engine as it is to neglect it . |
| 20 | So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it . |
| 21 | If noise is where language ceases , then to describe it is to imprison it again with adjectives . |
| 22 | ‘ The burning is an illusion , and the only way to get rid of it is to face it and absorb it . |
| 23 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 24 | That 's a great satisfaction to everybody , it goes to a car pound , and then you have to go there and pay your sixty dollars or whatever it is to get it out . |
| 25 | The only way to shape it is to abrade it with even harder substances . |
| 26 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |