Example sentences of "it [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 2 | It 's to one of the greatest of Champagne Houses that guests on board the Orient Express will be escorted on Sunday morning . |
| 3 | and it 's to one |
| 4 | It 's a graph of average household size in North Yorkshire , and it 's to that extent it 's an attempt to summarize into one figure , the headship rate effect as it affects average household size . |
| 5 | I think it 's to that one |
| 6 | No it 's to Labour you plonker ! |
| 7 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 8 | it 's to early in the afternoon for me really . |
| 9 | it 's to small for one thing in it to pick up ? |
| 10 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 11 | I said Well it must be if it 's to twenty three . |
| 12 | Well it 's to runny . |
| 13 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Unfortunately it is also true to say that suicide is very common among the elderly and it is to that subject that we now turn . |
| 17 | And it is to that aspect that we shall now turn . |
| 18 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 19 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 20 | As I am satisfied that the judge applied an incorrect test to the foster mother 's application , and was also deprived of material necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion , it follows that we are free to exercise our own discretion and it is to that question that I now turn . |
| 21 | And it is to that higher-order state of mind that Learning in higher education must lead . |
| 22 | He knew that he was being sucked into the Prison of Hostages , for it is to that great and awesome dwelling that is not quite in the world of Men but not quite out of it that all soulless ones must go . |
| 23 | In so far as such doctrines owe anything to economic theory , it is to that body of theorising now encompassed within the term ‘ public choice theory ’ , and particularly to economic models of bureaucracy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is the only valid state a DC can be in if it is to submitted for assessment by interested LIFESPAN users . |
| 27 | Okay to say how similar it is to one thing to another . |
| 28 | However , one way of doing it is to first fold your arms as in the diagram . |
| 29 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 30 | You can make a move in 1993 but even if it is to bigger and better things , there may be some apprehension , possibly even sadness , attached to it . |