Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 2 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 3 | It is linked to a video recorder in the room and all the teacher has to do is to switch on when she or he wants to be recorded . |
| 4 | What one has to do is to dig out a rectangle that will enclose the length and breadth of the pool and the greatest depth ( Fig 2a ) . |
| 5 | The last thing an executive search consultant wants to do is to take on an assignment which is not achievable and which he or she can not complete . |
| 6 | No no no what what Can I can I just say well I 'm What what the treasurer of an event like this needs to do is to note down the source of the cash he receives , to note where it 's coming from different products , how much is being received from that |
| 7 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 8 | Well I think what we want to do is to find out the truth from the hype and the emotion , that is what we want to establish and I 'm sure we will correct it if there is any injustice . |
| 9 | What well mainly what what is the I mean , these thinner ones , presumably they would do the job as well as I do n't know I mean , it 's keeping out What I want to do is to keep out the sun . |
| 10 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 11 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 12 | What I would like to do is to come back on Monday sorry Tuesday , Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 13 | So what you 've got to do is to put down Alfred 's Alfred and put his new salary down and then you have to Alberta and her new salary and see which is which is the most . |
| 14 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the biggest jobs we have got to do is to pass on what we have learned to the professions , ’ says Ms Reeves . |
| 16 | What we 've got to do is to find out . " |
| 17 | In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea . |
| 18 | The temptation which most club golfers seem to face is to take out a wedge regardless of the fact that the shot might be easier using a different club . |
| 19 | I mean the next thing they 'd want to do is to come in and do in this kitchen before you do any cooking for yourself |
| 20 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 21 | So what we will try to do is to work out a preliminary understanding of the conventions which tell English speakers when to use " the " . |
| 22 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 23 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 24 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 25 | He may have believed , and was encouraged to think , that the Communist party would win the coming election in France and form , or at least be made part of , a new government ; and the Russian advice seems to have been to hold on and to wait for ‘ democratic France ’ and its ‘ progressive forces ’ to support the cause of colonial liberation . |
| 26 | The damage that I once managed to inflict was to bend on of the metal strips away from the needle . |
| 27 | And the most vital step in preparing to persuade is to find out as much as you can about the people you are targeting . |
| 28 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 29 | All there was left to do was to stumble on , dutifully following the tracks on the ground as they appeared . |
| 30 | So the most helpful thing to do before you start shopping is to draw up a scale plan of the room . |