Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 2 | The last thing he wants is to turn a marauder into a mouse . |
| 3 | In a way , I suppose , it seems rather illogical to dismiss the value of the brochure altogether , for all types of customer , and at the same time suggest that the best way a customer can get the information s/he needs is to use a list of telephone numbers printed in the very brochure that is being dismissed . |
| 4 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 5 | But if what it means is to combine a sense of community , a sense of society , a sense of inter-dependent provision and collaboration in doing it and in providing true welfare con , consumerism , the government have chosen the word partnership . |
| 6 | What Language , Truth and Logic does is to call a particular philosophical position , rather than a particular branch of philosophy , ‘ metaphysics ’ and thereby nonsense . |
| 7 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 8 | A contract for the writing of computer programs should have detailed provisions about completion times and all section 14 does is to provide a net to catch those instances where there has been an oversight . |
| 9 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |
| 10 | Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others . |
| 11 | A licence agreement may specifically prohibit error correction so that all this provision does is to raise a presumption in favour of the lawful user . |