Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hopeless trying to plan for tomorrow . … |
| 2 | Oh it 's hopeless trying to help you in n it , you 're so independent you wo n't have no one help you and the pen 's not coming out , see you 're not doing it right I do n't mind helping you , but you 've got to let me show you , now go all the way along , round the Q , come round here , come round here , round here , back along , stop . |
| 3 | The first explicit statement in Greek literature that , although individual things are subject to change and decay , the world itself is eternal appears to have been made by the philosopher Heraclitus about 500 BC . |
| 4 | Frequently , local researchers come across such features , but there is little published to help explain them . |
| 5 | And in focusing on some problem areas it 's possible to fail to give an impression of the enormous privilege it is to serve the church and her lord in social responsibility . |
| 6 | So you try to leave the songs a little bit open , or you change the set list and give yourself something fresh and new for the evening — anything that 's possible to try to avoid getting bored ! |
| 7 | It is as impossible as it is undesirable to try to put the clock back and treat the majority of pupils as being necessarily philosophical and theological infants incapable of any more . |
| 8 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 9 | The company 's application was refused by Darlington Borough Council and is due to go to appeal in May . |
| 10 | It is annoying to have to spend extra money on postage for a small order , but even more annoying to experience considerable delay in obtaining the book for our customer . |
| 11 | Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's awful having to creep around all the time . ’ |
| 13 | It is simpler to learn to live with the proposed branching rule . |
| 14 | ‘ Is that meant to reassure me ? ’ |
| 15 | But the most significant point to make is that to attempt to force the fabliaux to fit some standard rhetorical classification is not just ( perhaps ) irrelevant , but , more seriously , distracting in respect of the frequently clever and significant exploitation of language in these texts . |
| 16 | He also draws attention to the problem of not being able to realise the shares for at least five years : ‘ Is that going to motivate people in the current recession ? ’ |
| 17 | There 's a sort of fifty percent increase , it seems a , you know , a huge increase , but is that going to settle down ? |
| 18 | But just a minor point , erm if we 're going to settle for one third the job initially , is that going to improve the bollards to the front and rear ? |
| 19 | ‘ How long is that going to take ? ’ he asked briskly . |
| 20 | How long is that going to take ? |
| 21 | Is that going to kill you ? |
| 22 | ‘ Is that going to happen soon ? ’ |
| 23 | Well let's have a look at the cost of it , you know , what sort of life cover is that going to give me immediately ? |
| 24 | ‘ But how is that going to help us ? |
| 25 | Right , and how is that going to help the world by Anthony being a lawyer |
| 26 | Is that going to come up ? |
| 27 | What impression is that going to have on that laddie ? |
| 28 | The curriculum is devised primarily according to the knowledge and skills required by the practising surveyor , and the theoretical content is that required to give the student the necessary understanding . |
| 29 | It is usual to seek to limit warranty liability to the amount of the purchase consideration and sometimes , especially in very large transactions possibly with a high property content , a much smaller sum is negotiated . |
| 30 | It is preferable to arrange to visit in about 6 months ' time for a general discussion on how they are getting on . |