Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entails an awareness of the mutability of this world , and an awareness of what elements in it are permanently to be valued . |
| 2 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 3 | So would , what I was wondering is , is the continuous going to be , up to there and after there , or can it be up to there , in the middle |
| 4 | Well that 's fine , but why should it be down to thirty percent ? |
| 5 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 6 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 7 | If it were up to me , I 'd jock you off for the rest of the season . |
| 8 | ‘ How do you mean ‘ if it were up to me ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 10 | ‘ I wish it were not to be lost to you . ’ |
| 11 | This decision , if it were not to be entirely arbitrary , would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy . |
| 12 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 13 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 14 | Get a book published — that is hard enough — or a TV play produced and it 's straight to the newspapers to see what the critics say . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll give you a quick bath and then it 's straight to bed . ’ |
| 16 | It 's yet to be seen whether Jodami , yesterday 's Gold Cup winner will ever achieve the status of these two greats . |
| 17 | It 's yet to be seen if the report will have an unpleasnat side effect on sales . |
| 18 | ‘ The county council has been working there recently , putting up fencing all along it because it 's soon to be opened up as official footpath on a new part of the Teesdale Way , ’ said Mrs Brown . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it 's not to be wondered at . |
| 20 | The neck is bowed out of shape already , which , in truth , could happen to any bass , but it 's not to be expected from an instrument with virtually zero miles on the clock , and these initial impressions are important to anyone considering an investment . |
| 21 | It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ? |
| 22 | If you 've never seen one before it 's not to be missed . |
| 23 | Now this last one here is called Living the Prayer and it 's like the other quite a few of the others , erm but it 's for you , it 's not for not for us it 's not to be shared . |
| 24 | It 's not to me , Harry . |
| 25 | But it 's not to be confused with … |
| 26 | ‘ The camera is quite kind to me where it 's not to other people . ’ |
| 27 | There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price . |
| 28 | Whether they go on late at night , or , hair cut the next morning , it 's not , it 's not to the wall , but er , this would appear to cut right across the board . |
| 29 | It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it |
| 30 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |