To be accepted as a member is to have an IQ in top....

[Dominik92]

Hello all.

Once when I was in Ireland I saw a kind of really bizzare sentence to me.

- To be accepted as a member is to have an IQ in top...

Do you use this kind of "structure" often? Is it colloquial? Because I would use something like "requires/means" instead of "is".

Thank you.

 

[jutfrank]

This kind of structure is not especially unusual but not that common, either. It's not at all colloquial. You could also use requires having an IQ...