Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [pron] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 2 | Every child knows that the way to break the most intractable toffee is to hit it with a poker . |
| 3 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 4 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
| 5 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 6 | COOK 'S NOTE : The easiest way to crumble any blue cheese is to stroke it with a fork until crumbled . |
| 7 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 8 | For example , to commit an account of an incident to paper is to endow it with a permanence and visibility to senior staff which may result in the creation of further — seemingly unnecessary — work . |
| 9 | And the cumulative effect on teachers — as we are seeing now — is to fill them with a sense of weary déjà vu when another good idea comes along , so that resistance to change becomes a reflex action , even when the teachers themselves , in their own quiet moments , know that some non-tinkering kind of change is needed , and , if they were in a different , less harassed , state , would likely welcome it . |
| 10 | The only satisfactory way to deal with a word which can not be found is to negotiate it with the user ; such a word can be ignored ( i.e. , removed from the search ) or replaced , or the search can be abandoned on the ground that the word is correct and essential to the success of the search . |
| 11 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 12 | However , as we remarked in Chapter 1 , to identify pragmatics wholly with the truth-conditional apparatus that will handle indexicals is to leave us with no term for all those aspects of natural language significance that are not in any way amenable to truth-conditional analysis . |
| 13 | ‘ Our position as an extension of the working class is to ally ourselves with the miners and to fight the government 's relocation programme , ’ read a banner outside the university , which was on strike . |
| 14 | The natural inclination of a new ‘ Couper is to turn it with the fingers , but one quickly learns to run a palm across one side , either up or down , in order to change trim by rolling the black knob . |
| 15 | is to align themselves with the people . |