Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Making the decision to come in is difficult for an investor , ’ Sir Bob Reid said in a recent interview , ‘ as there is no easy exit once you are in , and there is not a lot of money to be made in the railway business . ’ |
| 2 | What seems more difficult to find nowadays is genuine passion and thankfully no-one with the will to survive could ever describe Bitumen as wishy-washy . |
| 3 | What I am going to focus on is this terrible guilt feeling which is coming out while you 're giving me all this information , and I can see one or two nodding heads , I guess , I guess some of you 've been in that situation . |
| 4 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 5 | In the exercise of that right the landlord may exclude the tenant from occupation , but only for a reasonable time , and only if to do so is essential for the execution of the work ( McGreal v Wake ( 1984 ) 269 EG 1254 ) . |
| 6 | To do so is simple . |
| 7 | This is a classic case of dramatic irony which alerts the reader to the fact that novels too are capable of mixing fantastic and realistic elements , that indeed the capacity to do so is one of their defining characteristics . |
| 8 | Failure to do so is expensive , in financial and human terms . |
| 9 | The legislator has little incentive to improve the quality of information used to check on the claims made by bureaucrats about social needs , administrative costs , procurement levels and activity rates , especially when to do so is costly to the politicians . |
| 10 | In the case of failures to cite theses in the present study , it is suggested that bibliographical control of Scottish geology theses is at a level such that the literature is easily searched , and that failure to do so is unlikely . |
| 11 | Failure to do so is likely to cause injury . |
| 12 | Failure to do so is likely to result in erroneous data being written into the chip during removal from its socket . |
| 13 | While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives . |
| 14 | Erm the first thing I 'm , I I would like t t to draw out is that at the end of the year we made a profit of a hundred sixty thousand pounds . |
| 15 | He said that he was " wounded " by not having been consulted by Shevardnadze beforehand , and declared that " to go now is unforgivable " . |
| 16 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 17 | Does he agree , however , that what we need to pursue now is cross-nation inspection of the implementation of rules and regulations emanating from Brussels to ensure enforcement in other nations and not just in Britain ? |
| 18 | The main point to understand here is that different types of trust are designed to meet different situations . |
| 19 | Now er your wife and family would receive around four thousand pounds a year to live on is that what you want to happen ? |
| 20 | The transmission 's widely spaced gear ratio do n't help matters , but the gearbox 's reluctance to kick down is plain poor . |
| 21 | Sparsity and the necessity to back off is less of a problem for a model based on part of speech transitions . |
| 22 | Because people have freedom of choice where to shop there is some overlap between these spheres of influence . |
| 23 | The hard work is missing , the motivation is missing , the need to get on is missing and the exam results inevitably suffer from that . |
| 24 | The main message to get across is that concentration on selective , analytic listening will help them to recognise what is being said , and that practice usually brings confidence . |
| 25 | The need to be able to get about is essential for daily life , and also to take advantage of increased leisure time . |
| 26 | Learners of English need to learn where is appropriate and where it is not . |
| 27 | Their lack of ease with each other is tangible and to pretend otherwise is sheer folly . |
| 28 | However , in the less restrictive situation where the firm 's revenue function is not iso-elastic , a sufficient condition for union wages and membership to move procyclically is that |
| 29 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 30 | that you can try and get them to say well is that sort of moderately vivid or very vivid or very very vivid or absolutely compelling just like real life or erm I , I do n't know what , what , what you 'd be able to do erm it 's obviously got ta be something that you can present orally |