Example sentences of "is [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm really sorry now is to see all the old words really going . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |
| 4 | Duggie Brown is excruciatingly convincing as the sleazy , no-talent compere whose best reward is to grope all and sundry . |
| 5 | And there 's a section on the form which asks candidates to fill in their interests and it 's in that section that a candidate puts over their own personality , and so I would ask people who are applying to think very carefully before filling that section in , and to be both broad in what they say , that is to include all their interests , but also to be very specific as well . |
| 6 | However , if the celebration is to continue all evening and the tea and coffee and wedding cake are to be served later , it is possible to delay the cutting of the cake until after the speeches which conclude the meal . |
| 7 | To submit to unemployment or slums or want , to let children go hungry or sick and old unattended , for fear of increasing the internal national debt , is to lose all sense of proportion . ’ |
| 8 | Now while it is plausible to argue that consumption expenditure will partly depend upon the real value of private sector net worth , to concentrate all attention on a tiny fraction of this magnitude is to lose all sense of proportion . |
| 9 | The role of the state is to enable all persons to express their nature and pursue their own autonomously conceived conception of the good and plan of life . |
| 10 | An alternative method is to glue all mitred edges then enclose in a frame clamp . |
| 11 | The standard method of producing task descriptions is to write all the separate sub-tasks at various levels on cards and then assemble the cards in a network . |
| 12 | The object is to catch all the other players by hitting them with the ball . |
| 13 | The second priority for a systematic communications programme is to provide all relevant information to the employee about his job such as : skills , resources and how flexible he can be ; factors affecting performance ( limits of responsibility , work targets ) ; factors affecting the environment of the job ; changes in any of these . |
| 14 | The overall intention is to provide all interested parties with a clearer appreciation of the real motivations of , and weaknesses behind , marketing decision making , and to lay the foundations for the solving of those marketing problems which may be exposed . |
| 15 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |
| 16 | An airline is to increase all it 's fares by seventeen percent . |
| 17 | A useful tip is to exclude all light completely from the tubing by wrapping it in strips of black bin liner , thereby depriving algae of all light so , in theory , they should not form at all . |
| 18 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 19 | The ultimate threat of the federal army is to destroy all the vital supply lines of Croatia , including power plants , oil refineries and chemical industries . |
| 20 | In many cases , the long-term effect of such diets is to replace all the pounds lost and some of the diets may be positively dangerous . |
| 21 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 22 | The purpose of the census is to list all men over 20 fit for military service . |
| 23 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 24 | To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sèvres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee . |
| 25 | IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings . |
| 26 | This analysis must however be extended if it is to cover all the uses of the infinitive since there are also cases in which the latter is not in relation with another verb , as in the following exclamations : ( 1 ) Oh to be in England now that April 's there ! |
| 27 | Our strategy is to focus all our resources on the two core businesses of spirits and beers . |
| 28 | It is to surrender all purposeful hope of changing , through literature or any other means , the world in which one is bound to live . |
| 29 | ‘ My top priority is to do all that I can to help those out of work find jobs . |
| 30 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |