Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COURT of Appeal Judge who cheated death in an IRA bomb explosion six years ago is to retire this week . |
| 2 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 3 | To fail in marriage nowadays is to go bankrupt in a business of life in which everyone engages and in which the large majority at least appear to be successful . |
| 4 | But as long as the A level system remains , pupils at school will be required severely to limit their choice of subjects , it being assumed that the only way to ensure ‘ standards of excellence , is to go more and more deeply into an ever narrower range of subjects . |
| 5 | I am besides about to be deserted by my husband , who is to go this next week to Rome to prepare the way for the Brownings . |
| 6 | The more there is to go wrong , of course . |
| 7 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |
| 8 | I think I 'm really sorry now is to see all the old words really going . |
| 9 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 10 | To contrast that group with a hospital team is to see that clearly . |
| 11 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 12 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 13 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 14 | But the other reason to break the journey is to see some of the outback . |
| 15 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 16 | To see [ Brief Encounter ] again … at the Baker Street Classic , is to see another film entirely … the audience in this usually polite and certainly middle-class hall could n't restrain its derision and repeatedly burst into angry exasperated laughter … a well-spoken young lady … finally cried out ‘ Where the hell is Milford Junction anyway ? ’ |
| 17 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 18 | The final part of the procedure before analysis can begin is to see these categories of deixis within a particular discourse , operating at a point along a cline of activity . |
| 19 | All I 've come for is to see fair play . ’ |
| 20 | I think the worst thing for me is to see homeless people . |
| 21 | The temptation is to see this as part of a general dynamic conditioned by similar wartime experiences , party organisations and social structures ; but historically the areas contrasted strongly , and West Ham lay outside the influence of Morrison 's London Labour Party ( p 29 below ) . |
| 22 | The first is to see this as a tragedy of revenge involving old feuds of churches and peoples , overlaid by score-settling for the atrocities of 1941–45 . |
| 23 | In Scale 2 Hilton talks of his understanding of the dynamic nature of God 's love working in man : The goal of contemplative life is to see this , a seeing which is a felt understanding of love , and Hilton accounts for the curious process by which a person grows towards this state as the interaction between the being of God — unformed love in which all men participate — and the response enabled by God to this dynamic potential at the heart of their being — love formed . |
| 24 | An alternative way , however , is to see national cohesion as secondary and to think of the UK economy as simply one site where the forces of a worldwide , supranational economy are in play . |
| 25 | The Governments ' primary aim is to see significant reductions in the amounts of waste requiring disposal . |
| 26 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 27 | Certainly er the higher up the the kind of er organisation at a university the tendency is to is to wear different things . |
| 28 | The third rule is to wear hard-soled and protective shoes whenever you are setting up . |
| 29 | The object of this work is to demolish common , vulgar and quasi-Marxist ideas about the nature of the Zusammenbruch ( collapse ) of capitalism predicted by the great authors of scientific communism and the nature of the process of transforming a capitalist society into a communist one . |
| 30 | The only way to combat the disease is to kill all the pigs , as was done in Cuba when the disease was confirmed in 1976 . |