Example sentences of "but it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is to do with changing the course of history . |
| 2 | The club is taking over a second-floor suite of offices on a short-term lease , but it is to continue searching for new premises , almost certainly still in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 4 | But it is to wonder about the sort of book it is . |
| 5 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 6 | But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop . |
| 7 | This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease . |
| 8 | This is not to argue that professionals should try to replicate the process of supporting self-advocacy , but it is to suggest that the aims , mode of operation and the nature of the professional/client working relationship should , at the very least , not be in conflict with the emergence of self-advocacy . |
| 9 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 10 | But it is to suggest that an image of perennial conflict between science and religion is inappropriate as a guiding principle . |
| 11 | It 's got nothing to do with mortality but it 's to do with the great beauty of the colour of raw meat ’ . |
| 12 | The idea is , is not to make any judgements about you people , for instance , the whole thing is totally anonymous but it 's to hear the state of the language as it is , I I assume , at the moment , and what 's going to happen is , they 're collecting a massive quantity of erm , of words . |
| 13 | But it 's to help it 's cos she 's a student , and it 's to help towards a special diet . |
| 14 | So , that might be something to bear in mind , that it 's not just the negative part , get rid of the excess sort of organics , but it 's to get rid of cure disease . |