Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And their classic response when their partner demonstrates emotion is simply to walk away from it . ’ |
| 2 | Your best chance for successful badger-watching is carefully to stake out a sett before dusk . |
| 3 | The purpose of the present research is simply to find out whether it is practical to begin a project now or soon , or whether such a project should wait until there are more results from those working on the theory . |
| 4 | The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 7 | Since by definition the composition of phonolexical subsets is not predictable by a general rule , one way of revealing their presence in a body of data is routinely to record as both a lexical item and a phonetic value each putative token of a variable ( see tables 6.2 , 6.3 , 6.4 , 6.5 for examples ) . |
| 8 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 9 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
| 10 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 11 | The role of the Structure Plan is therefore to identify where to build new homes and businesses , taking account of planning objectives . |
| 12 | The secret of drinking is just to know when to stop , you know you 've just got |
| 13 | As a consequence , the sequence of development of a contract on an options exchange is initially to offer just a call option on the underlying , and when that is established to supplement it with a put contract . |
| 14 | The aim is also to carve out new market areas — like denim — which do not compete directly with rayon . |
| 15 | My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between ‘ Western monotheism ’ and ‘ Eastern polytheism ’ . |
| 16 | Details on how to grow dandelions are generally superfluous ; the real need is usually to know how to eradicate them . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | This world view forgets that people must live now , and , even if capitalism is inevitably to break down , there will be considerable room for manoeuvre over how this happens and what will replace it … . |
| 19 | A good tip to avoid the terrors of the night is simply to imagine where you are in the daylight , and by picturing the pleasant surroundings of your tent in brilliant sunshine , the dark night will hold no satanic secrets . |
| 20 | We 'll just say the water is still to go in . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 22 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 23 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 24 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 25 | A major part of the nurse 's role is therefore to assess how much help a patient requires and what risks there may be to his safety . |
| 26 | If God is truly to begin again , then he must start with a child born out of the blue , a child most decidedly of his making . |
| 27 | Another method is simply to switch off the tail compensation system and some radios are fitted with an easily accessible switch for this purpose . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His inclination is always to go back to those he knows and feels comfortable with . |
| 30 | To describe Yamaha 's new TG100 as a tone generator is really to tell only half the story . |