Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The more there is to go wrong , of course . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All I 've come for is to see fair play . ’ |
| 8 | I think the worst thing for me is to see homeless people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Governments ' primary aim is to see significant reductions in the amounts of waste requiring disposal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Certainly er the higher up the the kind of er organisation at a university the tendency is to is to wear different things . |
| 13 | The third rule is to wear hard-soled and protective shoes whenever you are setting up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The European Community is to implement new moves to protect the environment which could raise petrol prices by up to four pence a gallon throughout Europe . |
| 16 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 17 | At present , like reputable healers worldwide , Boltwood 's concern is to heal sick people . |
| 18 | The work starts with a very action-orientated point of view : the functional role of the mind is to support adaptive , intelligent action . |
| 19 | Tony Smith claims that the purpose of our newsletter is to support alternative medicine . |
| 20 | Support teachers sole brief is to support specific children may find that they have little room for manoeuvre to combat these likely problems . |
| 21 | BNFL is to plough £15,000 into a local organisation whose aim is to support new businesses and create jobs in an area with one of the highest levels of unemployment in Lancashire . |
| 22 | A prime function of nurses is to support optimum levels of wellness and function in elderly people , and community nurses , who are increasingly undertaking health screening for this client group , are ideally placed encourage them to maintain their level of wellness , and to offer or organise support when necessary . |
| 23 | ‘ Our directive is to support multinational companies moving into Eastern Europe , ’ says Andrew Gibson , BT 's director for Eastern Europe , whose group welcomes enquiries from accountancy firms thinking of setting up there , or whose clients intend to do so . |
| 24 | If the state is to support Catholic education , then why not state support for all religions ? |
| 25 | The aim , as stated in the company 's annual report is to support multiple servers ; Windows , Presentation Manager , Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces ; the C and SQL development languages ; SNA and TCP/IP protocols ; and OS/2 , Unix and MVS operating systems . |
| 26 | The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other . |
| 27 | One possibility is to conduct monetary and budgetary policies in such a way as to maintain a steadily expanding flow of total money expenditure on the products of labour , and so on labour itself . |
| 28 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 29 | The main role is to conduct formal systematic limnology — to study the physical features and biology of the loch . |
| 30 | Experiments have been performed to investigate , at different times of the day and night , how easy it is to fall asleep , how likely it is to wake up spontaneously , and how long volunteers can stay asleep . |