Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 2 | The Prince of Wales is to pull out of top-grade polo severing his sporting links with Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 3 | The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost . |
| 4 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |
| 5 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 6 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 7 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 8 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 10 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 11 | If a president is to break out of this situation , if he is to become a leader rather than a mere presider , he requires a reasonably united administrative branch , yet that minimum requirement is not easily come by . |
| 12 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 13 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 14 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 15 | My objective is to move on to fresh ground and not have to return to this particular patch . |
| 16 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 17 | The salt is to make up for any salt that you lose . |