Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [to-vb] a [adj] " 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 best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 3 | One of the basic problems in surveying is to obtain a good response from one 's informants . |
| 4 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 5 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 6 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 10 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 11 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 12 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |
| 13 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 14 | What the system does do is to provide a continuous flow of information to the selector about the type of books required by the library and the number of books of each type , and it is on this information that the bibliographical decisions are based . |
| 15 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 16 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 17 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 18 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |
| 19 | The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath . |
| 20 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 21 | A useful way of finding out how much flash to use is to produce a normal test strip from your negative in one direction across the paper and a ‘ flash ’ test strip down the paper . |
| 22 | A useful way of finding out how much flash to use is to produce a normal test strip from your negative in one direction across the paper and a ‘ flash ’ test strip down the paper . |
| 23 | The technique employed is to attach a small trout , or even herring , to a bare hook . |
| 24 | Now what I 'm proposing to do is to issue a revised programme in respect of the afternoon session this afternoon , which will take in some of the business that er has has already fell off which would be at the end of the private session this afternoon so we 'll try and get in er rule twenty Regions in their Manage and their Management which will take in three motions , thirty six , thirty seven and forty and then we 'll turn , hopefully , to the Social Security Payments Resolutions , you 'll remember that they fell off , composite two eight three , motions three seven nine , three eight five and three eight six . |
| 25 | Best thing to do is to draw a little picture erm so what does volts measure ? |
| 26 | The first thing to do is to form a realistic picture of how you want your physical shape to change . |
| 27 | Usually all the court is asked , or needs , to do is to authorise a particular course of treatment where the person or body whose consent is requisite is unable or unwilling to do so . |
| 28 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 29 | The first thing to do is to have a major component of the reading section to include dyslexia , with erm instruction of trainee teachers , not only in how to recognise the problem , but also how to do something about it , and how to use the education system to bring support for parents and pupils . |
| 30 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |