Example sentences of "[verb] is [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 2 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 3 | One of the basic problems in surveying is to obtain a good response from one 's informants . |
| 4 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 5 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 6 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 7 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 8 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 9 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 10 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 11 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 12 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 13 | What the system does do is to provide a continuous flow of information to the selector about the type of books required by the library and the number of books of each type , and it is on this information that the bibliographical decisions are based . |
| 14 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 15 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 16 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 17 | Ail that is needed is to throw an oncoming punch off course . |
| 18 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |
| 19 | The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath . |
| 20 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 21 | A useful way of finding out how much flash to use is to produce a normal test strip from your negative in one direction across the paper and a ‘ flash ’ test strip down the paper . |
| 22 | A useful way of finding out how much flash to use is to produce a normal test strip from your negative in one direction across the paper and a ‘ flash ’ test strip down the paper . |
| 23 | The technique employed is to attach a small trout , or even herring , to a bare hook . |
| 24 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
| 25 | Now what I 'm proposing to do is to issue a revised programme in respect of the afternoon session this afternoon , which will take in some of the business that er has has already fell off which would be at the end of the private session this afternoon so we 'll try and get in er rule twenty Regions in their Manage and their Management which will take in three motions , thirty six , thirty seven and forty and then we 'll turn , hopefully , to the Social Security Payments Resolutions , you 'll remember that they fell off , composite two eight three , motions three seven nine , three eight five and three eight six . |
| 26 | Best thing to do is to draw a little picture erm so what does volts measure ? |
| 27 | The first thing to do is to form a realistic picture of how you want your physical shape to change . |
| 28 | Usually all the court is asked , or needs , to do is to authorise a particular course of treatment where the person or body whose consent is requisite is unable or unwilling to do so . |
| 29 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 30 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |