Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 2 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 3 | But this is to talk of the nominal or official method of appointment . |
| 4 | The best way to do this is to go to the experts , the people who use the course every day , the teachers and the students . |
| 5 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 6 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 7 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 8 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 9 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 10 | One way of doing this is to look behind the literal , formal meaning of what is said or written , and to consider what the sender of a message intends to achieve with it , to try to understand its function . |
| 11 | One way of doing this is to look behind the literal , formal meaning of what is said or written , and to consider what the sender of a message intends to achieve with it , to try to understand its function . |
| 12 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 13 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 14 | One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the ‘ ice age ’ as if there had been only one . |
| 15 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 16 | What I want you to do as as the person who 's being assertive is to stick to the point . |
| 17 | The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy . |
| 18 | The second is to look at the process used for introducing and developing projects in the classroom and ensuring that this follows a well-defined plan . |
| 19 | The reason that the groups are not larger is to do with the sparsity of the food supply . |
| 20 | In this case the only way to be sure is to go through the procedure of HIV testing . |
| 21 | With government schemes , the worst option of all is to play by the rules . |
| 22 | One analysis which has proved useful is to look at the issue as a process of dealing with information , and to define the skills involved in this process as information skills ( Winkworth , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | Question 4 is to allow for the case where a commercial package deal would be more beneficial to the company than making the item in-house . |
| 24 | Question 4 is to allow for the case where a commercial package deal would be more beneficial to the company than making the item in-house . |
| 25 | There are plenty of non-book publishers with ranges very well suited to a general bookshop , and by far the best way to discover just what is available is to go to the gift trade 's International Spring Fair at the NEC , Birmingham from 7th to 11th February and find out for yourselves . |
| 26 | The main priority at first is to get round the course without falling off ; then , as you improve , you can start to think about tactics , some of which are explained below . |
| 27 | The first is to contribute to the theoretical analysis of work and employment and to discussions of labour markets , and to advance our understanding of the ways in which gender operates at work . |
| 28 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 29 | The 1991 season is full of promise with the Under 13 's off to a good start and Jim expects the Under 15 's to finish in the top halp of the Paisley District League . |
| 30 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |