Example sentences of "it [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorigo did the baddest tackle and got away with it only to be booked later . |
| 2 | When we get it together to be so . |
| 3 | The task for the journalist and broadcaster is to recognise and conform to the valuable discipline of the law , while at the same time understanding it sufficiently to be able to call the bluff of those who seek to exploit it to suppress important truths . |
| 4 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |
| 5 | Is it enough to be competent and competitive in the music market ? |
| 6 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 7 | Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged . |
| 8 | ‘ we 're in it just to be anonymous — |
| 9 | I 'm not doing it just to be difficult . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na , you can chair it from there but I 'm gon na do it just to be safe . |
| 11 | Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me . |
| 12 | Should it unfortunately prove necessary , will my right hon. Friend make arrangements for it possibly to be introduced without notice and simultaneously after consultation with the Government of the Republic of Ireland ? |
| 13 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
| 14 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 15 | ‘ You realize there 's the best part of four million pounds in those contracts — most of it still to be paid to us . ’ |
| 16 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 17 | Revising it yesterday to be honest . |
| 18 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
| 19 | Is it always to be Mr. X or Mrs. X ? |
| 20 | Emma : Publicity 's a tiger which can turn and rend The man who thought it once to be his friend . |
| 21 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 22 | The argument might be put forward , therefore , that the treatment slows the body clock enough for it now to be adjusted to a 24-hour day by normal time-cues . |
| 23 | One can see why ; but was it really to be so ? |
| 24 | I do n't think we 're likely to meet it here to be honest with you but yes you do get it . |
| 25 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 26 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 27 | Minsky 's ‘ supreme organizer ’ view must be a hierarchical one , for that organizer alone has the model of its relation to other modules , and it must therefore always be in control , because no other module has the model of relationships that would allow it sometimes to be in control ( in the way a heterarchical view requires ) . |
| 28 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 29 | While the more organised approach culminated in the proposed ‘ primary and secondary host ’ plan , the realities made it hard to be quite so regimented . |
| 30 | And so those who devised all age worship in the in the sort of early eighties or late seventies , when it was the thing , devised it either to be just worship , or to be both education and worship . |