Example sentences of "is to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 2 | The only safe solution is to get the gliders into the hangar before the squalls arrive , or to make sure that there are at least two people close to each glider all the time , ready to swing them round when necessary . |
| 3 | That is to say , the infant must convert stimulation from light rays , sound waves , from the speech stream into the appropriate representational grist if it is to get the kind of information that it requires from the world ; but this gleaning of information does not constitute thought . |
| 4 | It now seems easier for Scots to get into a Great Britain senior team than it is to get into the Commonwealth Games team . |
| 5 | ‘ The main concern is to get the tunnel built with the French . |
| 6 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 7 | ‘ The idea of the new move is to get away from the possibilities of cross-contamination ’ , a ministry spokeswoman said . |
| 8 | Their policy is to get in among the big clubs on merit , thus forcing television 's hand . |
| 9 | A weak exchange rate transmits inflation , and the Chancellor has made it abundantly clear his present priority is to get inflation down . |
| 10 | The main thing is to get our game right . |
| 11 | Wasps .................... 25 Loughborough University .. 17 THE FIRST priority for Wasps this week is to get back to winning ways in the League after their reversal at Harlequins . |
| 12 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 13 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 14 | Our purpose is to get more than you offer and whatever you offer it wo n't be enough . ’ |
| 15 | The secret of attracting more people to your gigs is to get your band 's name better known . |
| 16 | A plugger 's job is to get your record played on the radio . |
| 17 | ‘ You know how hard it is to get away , Rose . ’ |
| 18 | The only alternative , in the face of their own inability to act , is to get the government to fight for them — through demanding laws to back up current procedures . |
| 19 | My priority is to get the mexeflote reconfiguration completed . |
| 20 | And at BA 's annual meeting last week , chairman Lord King said : ‘ Our business is to get people into planes and fly them . |
| 21 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 22 | The bank 's other reason for turning two computers quickly into one is to get the newly acquired bank on Banc One 's own financial-reporting system . |
| 23 | Ford 's and Volkswagen 's Brazilian holding company , Autolatina , is to get rid of 8,000 car workers , 16% of its employees . |
| 24 | Mr Rodriguez 's plan is to get a high-school diploma , then win a pilot 's licence . |
| 25 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 26 | The reward for this self-sacrifice is to get their mugshot plastered across a million posters and T-shirts , witness Monroe , Dean , Presley , Lennon — the all-time greats , the Gang of Four . |
| 27 | All they want is to get their unemployment figures down ’ . |
| 28 | Her entire role in life is to get pregnant by Fred , her lord and master ; to lie down between the legs of his wife Serena , who 's sterile and desperate ; to shut up and spread them . |
| 29 | If the public is to get the message , it must be presented to them many times . |
| 30 | The first thing is to get rid of the Soviet Union 's presence here . |