Example sentences of "it is [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 3 | It is rather to see how Marx handles these problems , and what views he holds about them . |
| 4 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 5 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 6 | It is however to evade the issue as to whether Christianity and feminism are compatible . |
| 7 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 8 | If I regurgitate this , it is simply to put down a vote of censure from this column on ministers , particularly Douglas Hogg of the Foreign Office , who did nothing to prepare for the eventuality of oil slicks . |
| 9 | Well if the definition of salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in a particular volume of water , perhaps the logical way to do it is simply to take a volume of water and evaporate it and weigh the amount of salt that 's left so that might be the simplest approach . |
| 10 | 1 room-by-room guide to Chatsworth ( bit cheeky , this , as it is simply to perplex guides and attendants who are not used to seeing people coming round their house with noses stuck in guide to a completely different mansion , though you 'd be surprised how often it fits well anywhere ) |
| 11 | This is not to deny the differences ; it is simply to stress both the connections — which link them within what Raymond Williams calls a Long Revolution — and the importance of the word ‘ potential ’ . |
| 12 | It is simply to make a comment about their style of doing things . |
| 13 | It is simply to recognise that the structure of the ‘ proof ’ in both cases , in Rawls 's case an a priori proof , in Kohlberg 's case an experimental one , actually presupposes what it sets out to establish . |
| 14 | But unless you want to spend your time and money on litigation against surveyors , building societies , estate agents and solicitors , with no guarantee of success in the end , you need to become as competent as you possibly can in carrying out your own surveys , even if it is simply to check that the ‘ expert ’ has n't missed anything . |
| 15 | It is simply to recall the fact that almost all human behaviour , at least that which deserves the name of ‘ action ’ , is in fact culturally moulded and elaborated . |
| 16 | I have heard it said that when bream break surface it is simply to obtain the extra oxygen available there . |
| 17 | Er and finally to say that the strategy th that we have is not to take jobs from other areas , it is simply to meet the needs of the resident workforce . |
| 18 | But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned . |
| 19 | This is , undoubtedly , an important precursor of rational service-level planning , although it is not to say that the service infrastructure will necessarily develop from individual service plans . |
| 20 | If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other . |
| 21 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 22 | That is , it is not to characterize consciousness generally . |
| 23 | the whole point about it is not to put on the act . |
| 24 | ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’ |
| 25 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 26 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 27 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 28 | What then is the function of the student in the lecture period , if it is not to fill a notebook with what is written on the blackboard ? |
| 29 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 30 | Whatever the role of teachers , it is not to push back the frontiers of knowledge , nor to determine a new direction in which a discipline can move . |