Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 2 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 3 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 4 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 5 | To smoke is to dissociate oneself from the middle-class health fascists , to say no to jogging and yoghurt and yoga . |
| 6 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 7 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 8 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 9 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 10 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 11 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 12 | The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant . |
| 13 | The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production . |
| 14 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 15 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 16 | The next stage is to decide which of the potential projects to work on . |
| 17 | The next stage is to decide which of the potential projects to work on . |
| 18 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 19 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 20 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 21 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |