Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say that its reviews were mixed is to understate the case — the cons far outweighed the pros . |
| 2 | Instead , what matters is to answer the question : 'In whose interests are ‘ facts ' ’ reported or disputed ? ’ |
| 3 | But ‘ what is forbidden is to question the correctness of a decision or determination which it was within the area of their jurisdiction to make . ’ |
| 4 | What I propose is to examine the impact of notions of racial hierarchy , racial exclusion , and racial vulnerability and availability on non-blacks who held , resisted , explored , or altered those notions . |
| 5 | People who suggest that to intern is to bring the community on to the streets cast doubt on the integrity of the vast majority in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 7 | They do n't mind helping you out getting the diverts in the right position , because the last thing they want is to put the calls through to the wrong person . |
| 8 | All I want is to show the world that Charles was not hallucinating . ’ |
| 9 | Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring . |
| 10 | Not unexpectedly , Ian McGeechan was a bit more circumspect than his Wallaby counterpart , though : ‘ We have a very good game as it is , and the only thing it needs is to simplify the laws to achieve refereeing consistency . |
| 11 | Erm the only purpose of the information presented is to establish the differences in strategic terms between the the districts in in the county . |
| 12 | What the hon. Member should do is to draw the matter to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , and it will be investigated further . |
| 13 | All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read . |
| 14 | All that we can do is to set the visitor in motion ; but having done so , we can not review his decision . |
| 15 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 16 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 17 | Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it . |
| 18 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 19 | All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit . |
| 20 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
| 21 | Erm , so what I can do is to put the B four here inside of that string comma zero . |
| 22 | All the computer can do is to reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things . |
| 23 | At the time of writing , all I can do is to encourage the reader not to despise prophecies , but to test everything , pay attention , look and see whether these things come to pass : test the fruit . |
| 24 | What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users . |
| 25 | In order for the UK to emerge successfully out of recession , the last thing the government should do is to make the acquisition of new skills and ideas , through education and training more expensive . ’ |
| 26 | Unfortunately the mouse does n't eliminate the keyboard completely , the basic information still has to be fed into the computer but what is does do is to make the manipulation of that information much simpler . |
| 27 | What these things can do is to enhance the quality of life by helping us to transmute ‘ stress ’ into positive challenges , thus preventing the onset of apathy or even depression . |
| 28 | The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer . |
| 29 | The first thing we must do is to defeat the MacSharry proposals that target British farm workers , and particularly those relating to sheepmeat , which represent a direct attack on those who work in British agriculture — not merely those who own or rent farms but those employed on them . |
| 30 | What some researchers have done is to shift the significance of their findings away from such socially precise conditions , and to claim a kind of extra-social status for their own conventions by associating them with supposedly general logical qualities . |