Example sentences of "[verb] is [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 2 | What this operation can do is to cause havoc with a women 's sexuality , often provoking the very opposite to what was intended . |
| 3 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 4 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 5 | Other than that the only advice I can give is to get hold of the Torygraph , from Wednesday 5th . |
| 6 | Here the argument is rather different ; Durkheim argues that , if it is desired to penetrate and isolate the quintessential features of religion , then the best way of proceeding is to examine religion in its most primitive ( earliest ) , purest , and most elemental form . |
| 7 | Once the code is mastered it is relatively easy to transfer the skill to another language ; but to learn to read in a language where the spoken word is not well understood is to invite pseudoliteracy of the kind so painfully apparent in many countries . |
| 8 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 9 | What this motion quite clearly seeks to do is to widen debate at our Apex section conference . |
| 10 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 11 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 12 | What is proposed is to give effect to the privilege by removing the ground for apprehending danger . |
| 13 | Another investigation you can try is to destroy part of a web and then watch the spider repair it . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , after my travails upon this sad world are done , the last thing I would want is to view eternity from the inside of a bottle . ’ |
| 15 | One of the major goals of plotting is to draw attention to any unusual data points . |
| 16 | When a major purpose of investing is to take advantage of access to a single market with a growing monetary union , the opt-out country reduces its value as a place for investment . |
| 17 | No , what we need is to take advantage of what is right outside our door . ’ |
| 18 | The remedy often suggested is to get iron into the system quickly by foliar feeding . |