Example sentences of "[is] [verb] and [vb infin] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh mostly that really , supposedly going to America in February the sixth and the doctor , she said to the doctor what 's the matter and he said you 're really , really run down then he said to her what I suggest you do is to go and buy some cartons of fresh orange juice , a jar of honey and some natural live yoghurt and she 's ate it all , now she 's got diarrhoea ca n't win can ya ? |
| 2 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 3 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 4 | However , an important secondary aim is to promote and protect Scottish interests . |
| 5 | The annual award is to promote and encourage imaginative projects and management of wild game conservation and its habitat . |
| 6 | The purpose of this chapter is to try and clarify these issues by asking : ( a ) what is quality in health care ? ( b ) whose quality are we talking about ? ( c ) how can quality be turned into a reality in the new NHS ? |
| 7 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 8 | One main purpose of communicating is to establish and maintain human relationships . |
| 9 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 10 | The aim is to simplify and streamline existing techniques , and also to explore the use of expert systems as aids to decision making in this area . |
| 11 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
| 12 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
| 13 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
| 14 | The complementary task is to identify and acquire significant examples of contemporary consumer software , from VisiCalc ( an early spread sheet package for the Apple II , available in 1979 ) and Electric Pencil ( a word processing package for the Tandy Model I , 1978 ) , through to DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 for present day PCs . |
| 15 | The alternative approach is to identify and eliminate TB-infected badgers , and there has been much interest recently in developing a TB test for use on live badgers . |
| 16 | An initial aim of this project is to identify and categorize those areas of common land over which the general public have a legal right of access . |
| 17 | This model is expressed graphically using IS and LM curves , so part of our task is to derive and explain these curves . |
| 18 | The aim of the project , which finishes in March , is to send and receive electronic messages via a special modem link to schools and companies in France . |
| 19 | The duty of Her Majesty 's Government , whoever may form that Government , is to maintain and improve those standards of living . |
| 20 | Paige himself emphasises the element of ‘ purposive organizational behaviour , the object of which is to formulate and achieve social goals by means of consensus and coercion ’ . |
| 21 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |