Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | basically , besides it 's somewhere to call in |
| 2 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |
| 3 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 4 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 5 | It is rather to see how Marx handles these problems , and what views he holds about them . |
| 6 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 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 | Matthew 's brown eyes were everywhere ; occasionally they met Wycliffe 's only to flit away again . |
| 9 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 10 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 11 | ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . ) |
| 12 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 13 | My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between ‘ Western monotheism ’ and ‘ Eastern polytheism ’ . |
| 14 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 15 | To ask for solutions as well is perhaps to ask too much , for he has found more than most to be angry or cynical about . |
| 16 | He 's away to sleep again . |
| 17 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 18 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 19 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 20 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 21 | One other thing is just to chase up procedures we 're going to put on the passes for attendants and visitors and that still has n't been done . |
| 22 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 23 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 24 | And the easiest way to escape is just to slip back into the cockpit of a racing car . |
| 25 | The secret of drinking is just to know when to stop , you know you 've just got |
| 26 | But I am feeling better and my main concern is just to get well again . ’ |
| 27 | That 's just to live in . |
| 28 | It 's just to go up . |
| 29 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 30 | It 's the politics did n't work got ta mention politics , it 's just to get away from politics . |