Example sentences of "[verb] is [to-vb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 2 | What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’ |
| 3 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
| 4 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 5 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 6 | ‘ All we ask them to do is to visit any Royal Bank Branch , answer a few questions — and we 'll provide a quotation within three days , ’ said Norman . |
| 7 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 8 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 9 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 10 | Well , er , wh what we want to do , what we want to do is to relate this manifest content that you 've told us to what , what 's the other thing ? |
| 11 | All you do is to move that decimal point two places . |
| 12 | What he has learned is to bring any incipient conflict out into the open . |