Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 2 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 3 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 4 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Brent CABx now have nine representatives of black groups and organisations on their management committee whose aim is to pass on to the bureaux their knowledge of the needs of the communities that they represent . |
| 6 | All we need to do now , we are told , is to wake up to the fact that we are God . |
| 7 | The thing to do , Bob , is to face up to the fact right from the beginning that it 's going to be something Victorian or Edwardian , and that it 's going to be in some slightly less fashionable postal district . ’ |
| 8 | But in respect of specific works , the listener 's role is to measure up to the demands imposed by the work itself , to comprehend what is already present . |
| 9 | Temptation is to get on to the phone immediately |
| 10 | Find out how easy it is to get through to the number , the quality of the answers , and the hours during which it operates . |
| 11 | Farr was given the all clear at the start of this year and her next aim , after the wedding , is to get back to the tour where , in 1988 , she demonstrated promise with a third-placed finish in the Mazda Classic and a 41st position on the order of merit . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , her main aim is to move back to the area where her family live — preferably to buy a house there . |