Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 2 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 3 | Ada Younger is to go out to Zimbabwe in the late summer and hopes to arrange for a group from the church to go at a later date . |
| 4 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 6 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 7 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 8 | The best thing one could do I think is to go back to past trends . |
| 9 | The result is to go back to roots of pop music , mixing documentary , fly-on-the-wall conversations and live sets from an interesting assortment of guests , often tackling numbers you would n't normally see them perform on TV . |
| 10 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 11 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 12 | ‘ That is to go down to my wine cellar and get a bottle of nice cold vintage champagne . |
| 13 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 14 | Okay , just a final item , I think , before we , we break , thank you Paul , break for , for lunch , and that 's to go back to , I had a request from Derek to speak on Oak Farms |
| 15 | ‘ He is to report here to my office immediately . ’ |
| 16 | That to read the novel is to attend exclusively to the detail of a patterning . |
| 17 | But he also includes strophic arias , sometimes with varied strophes ( e.g. ‘ Ard ’ il mio petto ’ ) , and canzonette a ballo in which the singer is to attend only to ‘ la vivezza del canto ’ . |
| 18 | This should be supported by the health service as part of the programme of development that any large organisation must adopt if it is to remain up to date and use its resources cost effectively . |
| 19 | The greatest acting role in an audition is to appear just to be yourself . |
| 20 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Brent CABx now have nine representatives of black groups and organisations on their management committee whose aim is to pass on to the bureaux their knowledge of the needs of the communities that they represent . |
| 22 | The best policy is to try not to be placed in a position where you risk serious criticism on account of your behaviour . |
| 23 | The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’ |
| 24 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 25 | The aim of the research is to find out to what extent the cuts in the higher rates of income tax in the 1988 Finance Act may nave increased work effort , decreased avoidance and reduced emigration . |
| 26 | Elaborating on the Alliance 's offer of co-operation , Baker said in an address to ministers on June 6 that " our goal is to reach out to the Soviet Union and to the emerging democracies of central and eastern Europe " . |
| 27 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 28 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 29 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 30 | When it 's a cold , wet , miserable day and all that there is to look forward to is another day at the office dream on , is what I say . |