Example sentences of "[adv] is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly better is to use the test followed by study of the words spelled incorrectly ; but this causes only a marginal improvement . |
| 2 | The trick apparently is to make it look ordinary without it actually being so . |
| 3 | The first thing the production company and the agency have to do together is to plan the production and produce an estimate of the production costs . |
| 4 | We also run a summer school called Women into Physics , which is a rather strange title , but the idea basically is to persuade , if not encourage , young girls who have just taken their O levels that physics is a subject which could be for them — it 's not unladylike about being a scientist and , in particular , being a physicist . |
| 5 | The effect of disciplining and training myself morally is to refine my ch'i to a perfect transparency ; then the li show through . |
| 6 | In this case the only possible solution when retrieval times become too long is to turn to an inverted file or a multilist . |
| 7 | The ultimate aim naturally is to do itself out of business . |
| 8 | What I would do , because you have n't got a blue hard enough is to push yellow off somewhere to the left of black |
| 9 | One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment . |
| 10 | The real reason you put it in is to make it obvious what we mean . |
| 11 | More people have decided that the only way to get the house they want to live in is to become more involved in its construction . |
| 12 | For George Eliot , as for Dickens in the case of Chesney Wold , to stand outside and look in is to perceive a perfect picture ; to stand within and look out is to experience a moral chill . |
| 13 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 14 | They 're really down now , but we 've had a little taste of Europe and the best way to get back in is to start winning League games again . |
| 15 | Erm so if they do something with , with windows that makes them actually the , the open way they can break in is to break all the glass out , and the way you would do that is to fit a window lock . |
| 16 | The easiest way to lay down is to slide out your hands sideways until you are more or less flat . |
| 17 | The State Paper Office , a most convenient fire-proof building , which cost the public £50,000 , is , we hear , to be pulled down ; and the mania for pulling down is to extend not only to it , but , in order to complete the ‘ congruity ’ , we should have to Gothicise the Horse Guards , and apply Gothic exteriors to all buildings in the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | A better solution perhaps is to leave the pad out of the filter altogether only using it when necessary . |
| 19 | Just as interesting perhaps is to visualise the landscape that would have been created if enclosure had been delayed until after the introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s . |
| 20 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 21 | What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative , and a very readable one . |
| 22 | They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing . |
| 23 | Mm well if he finds out where you are , or even if he visits relatives and starts making threats saying he 's gon na get you or he 's er assault you , or he 's gon na hurt the child , anything like that , then er the first thing obviously is to contact the police to warn him off and secondly contact me , cos we 'll then be able to apply for an injunction to stop him coming anywhere near you . |
| 24 | Museums should be rewarding learning environments , and any attempt to settle for mass popularity alone is to sell museums short . |
| 25 | Rather , it adds a new element , which is that the testator 's son alone is to undertake liability . |
| 26 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife subject to a mortgage and the husband alone is to assume liability , then again the wife will require an indemnity from the husband . |
| 27 | If cost alone is to determine the level of service that is provided , we shall no doubt see Ministers trading in their Jaguars for Ladas — |
| 28 | The purpose in doing so is to examine how signs can , in psychological and linguistic terms , actually form part of the cognitive system . |
| 29 | One of the problems of opposing what deconstruction has had to say about language is that , according to deconstructionists like Miller and de Man , to do so is to oppose language itself . |
| 30 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |