Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Following Marx , many contemporary Marxists maintain that one of two main functions of public expenditure is to enable and assist private capital to remain profitable . |
7 | erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm |
8 | The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | I think the most important thing is to try and find that gap in the market that is not well trodden by a lot of other people — to find something which you can do which is different from all the rest of them . |
11 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
12 | The object of the game is to try and become this Priest of Paris , who begins the game choosing any number and saying , for example : ‘ The Priest of Paris has lost his ( her ) thinking cap . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I am delighted to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that our policy on capital expenditure is to encourage and enable higher education institutions to invest , as they need to do , to accommodate the dramatic increase in student numbers as well as provide facilities for the research of remarkable quality which takes place in so many of our universities . |
15 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
16 | One main purpose of communicating is to establish and maintain human relationships . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
20 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
21 | The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | This model is expressed graphically using IS and LM curves , so part of our task is to derive and explain these curves . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | These factors can not be controlled by either the borrower or the bank , so creative restructuring will be necessary if the property company is to survive and avoid bad debt . |
28 | The duty of Her Majesty 's Government , whoever may form that Government , is to maintain and improve those standards of living . |
29 | AEA believes , therefore , that there is much to be gained from the coherence of its business units and that an important part of its task is to maintain and develop such coherence in the future . |
30 | The aim is to investigate and explain this shift using the particular example of the English relation to Jamaica . |