Example sentences of "it is [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 3 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 4 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 5 | It is to say that mental disengagement from the region and its ‘ troubles ’ is hardly the way to achieve an historic compromise there . |
| 6 | Rather , it is to say that Gusfield 's theory may continue to have explanatory power , particularly with regard to the initial motivation of participants in such a movement , and that where Wallis ' work is important is in pointing to the cultural concerns that may also underpin the rise of specific moral entrepreneurial groups . |
| 7 | To say that it is a duty to do it is to say that its consequences would be better than those which would ensue from any alternative . |
| 8 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 9 | Roughly , it is to say that the statement ( R ) , and ( C ) true statements of certain conditions , and ( L ) a true lawlike statement , together entail the statement ( W ) . |
| 10 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 11 | But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop . |
| 12 | This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease . |
| 13 | It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this . |
| 14 | Another way of putting it is to say that RE has to offer feasible road-maps enabling pupils to chart their own way around the difficult country of religion with its complexity and ambiguity . |
| 15 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 16 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
| 17 | But , unless the proviso can be invoked , one must adopt the maxim that the more difficult ( short of impossibility ) is the defending advocate 's task , the more vital it is to see that he does not labour under an unfair disadvantage . |
| 18 | But once again it is to deny that they can do this by virtue of their intrinsic properties as individuals . |
| 19 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 20 | Rather , it is to emphasise that their members are in general uninformed about it ; and that even where they are not uninformed , they are for the most part unversed in it . |
| 21 | This is not to argue that professionals should try to replicate the process of supporting self-advocacy , but it is to suggest that the aims , mode of operation and the nature of the professional/client working relationship should , at the very least , not be in conflict with the emergence of self-advocacy . |
| 22 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 23 | But it is to suggest that an image of perennial conflict between science and religion is inappropriate as a guiding principle . |
| 24 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 25 | How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself . |
| 26 | Equally , what an encouragement it is to know that there is , in struggling Christians on earth , one of the Godhead who ‘ is around ’ on our behalf ; and that when we are agonising in prayer , we do not approach the Almighty on our own , in all our poverty . |
| 27 | Secondly , it is to ensure that , so far as possible , appropriate dependence is enjoyed , and occurs in a climate of warmth and affection . |
| 28 | This is as much to keep other things from crowding in as it is to ensure that we pay attention to all that matters . |
| 29 | In developing a thorough electronic information resource in the current climate of Town Hall life it is just as important to improve the facilities for a central electronic archive as it is to ensure that the paper records are properly looked after . |
| 30 | Important as it is to recognise that the notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical , not much purpose seems to be served by struggling to define more precisely such elusive matters as emotional interactions . |