Example sentences of "it is to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 2 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 3 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 4 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 5 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 6 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 7 | Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English . |
| 8 | It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative . |
| 9 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 10 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 11 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 12 | Dance movement in every form and style must be correctly parsed and expressed if it is to be clearly understood whether its message is simple , subtle , bold , comic or tragic . |
| 13 | Any untoward or awkward transition is immediately noticeable because it destroys the calm dignity that the human body needs if it is to be shown at its best . |
| 14 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 15 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 16 | To ban research on a fertilised egg unless it is to be reimplanted , and in the same Bill wish to permit abortion up to 18 weeks demonstrates the movement 's illogicality . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 19 | It is to be hoped that is so . |
| 20 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 21 | Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved . |
| 22 | Eric Abbott prophesied falsely , ‘ It is to be the great work of your life ’ . |
| 23 | Equally it is to be welcomed that two major attempts have been made to address the general nature of Conservative ideology . |
| 24 | Eccleshall and Honderich , however , will have none of this , and they lay to rest , it is to be hoped for good , the idea of Conservatism as a ‘ non-ideology ’ . |
| 25 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 26 | It is to be regretted that neither of these books examine the pluralism of the ‘ simulationist ’ period . |
| 27 | Reversing this trend , if it is to be reversed , can not be achieved by a new minimalism . |
| 28 | And grand it is to be sure . |
| 29 | Those whose calling it is to be God 's agents of reconciliation are vulnerable to the ordinary wear and tear of any who seek to serve among the wayward and weak , the blocked and blighted among beautiful people unable to realise their potential . |
| 30 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |