Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prejudice of several centuries is about to take a tumble . |
| 2 | An important point to remember when injecting solutions is never to put the holding pipette into the drop of label . |
| 3 | The effect on arboreal animals is largely to force them to leave logged forest and , as forests diminish , to promote their overcrowding . |
| 4 | To begin by throwing the classics of English literature at their heads is generally to count failure … |
| 5 | My advice to all lightweights is only to consider individual categories and to leave team competition to the heavyweights . |
| 6 | I think the fact that erm only twelve per cent of perceived sexual harassment cases come from tutors is n't to make that a minor problem , because the impact that sexual harassment , coming from tutors , institutional actors as it were , can have on students is phenomenal and you know one ca n't get too tied up in terms of the amount or the quantity of sexual harassment , I think one has to consider the quality of sexual harassment as well if one can put it that way , and it 's by no means a minor problem . |
| 7 | The answer put by proponents of the British approach is that the effect of publications or performances is rarely to incite directly whether to crime or anything else . |
| 8 | Tilts is not to downgrade their importance in social relations but it does put basal production first . |
| 9 | A One easy way to give naturally curly hair that perfect ringlet look just like you see in magazine pictures is simply to shampoo and rinse your hair and afterwards comb an even amount of conditioner through the hair . |
| 10 | The United Nations is soon to resume discussions with both sides . |
| 11 | To build a theory of ‘ lawyers as controllers ’ on an examination of their minority work with working class clients is therefore to miss the central point about what lawyers do , and it is this central point which should give them their place in a theory of the social formation . |
| 12 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 13 | Multiculturalism , as expressed in the Swann Report or in the writings of Jeffcoate , James , Lynch and Parekh , is based on the premise that the key issue facing schools is how to create tolerance for black minorities and their cultures in a white nation now characterized by cultural diversity or cultural pluralism . |
| 14 | ‘ This 'll spoil his day ’ means ‘ We 'll kill him ’ , and ‘ God ’ means ‘ A ton of bricks is about to fall on you ’ . |
| 15 | A high tech fashion firm promising higher quality and snappier designs is about to create fifty jobs in an Ayrshire unemployment blackspot . |
| 16 | If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population . |
| 17 | Consequently , for She may own a Porsche , the following diagram can be proposed : The relation is the same for She may leave tomorrow except that the actualization of the infinitive 's event would be future ( if it is realized at all ) : The role of the modal auxiliaries is thus to specify the kind of potentiality which the potential event expressed by the infinitive has — possibility , probability , necessity , etc. — and the type of coincidence involved here is that between an event conceived as a potentiality and the form of potentiality which it is conceived as having , i.e. between two potentialities . |
| 18 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 19 | Current advice for HIV positive mothers in developed countries is not to breastfeed their child . |
| 20 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 21 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 22 | To be sure , the vocabulary for defining such rhythmical effects is yet to seek ; but should not critics apply themselves to seeking and finding that vocabulary , instead of pursuing semantic and allusive niceties ? |
| 23 | The object of production under such circumstances is not to accumulate property but to make possible the continuation of the individual in society , since only as a member of society can one find meaning in human existence . |
| 24 | The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication . |
| 25 | Exactly it 's about childbearing is n't it , I mean having hips is also to do with your shape sexually is n't it . |
| 26 | One of those tricks is simply to take a lip-hold of the maggots without the hook being inside their mouths , which they do quite easily when the hook is a substantial one . |
| 27 | And so the idea of these days is just to reaffirm these erm basic principles of safety . |
| 28 | Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency . |
| 29 | The first concern of field social workers is inevitably to find and maintain placements for children who can not live continuously with their own families . |
| 30 | My advice to the hon. Gentleman 's constituents is not to listen to the advice of someone who does not pay the tax himself and who advises others not to pay . |