Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [verb] the [noun sg] " 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 | This is to undervalue the grief work , which could be assisted by listening to the stories of the person , the events of the death , and the pain of the loss being experienced . |
| 3 | This is to mistake the will for the deed . |
| 4 | Basically , this is getting the trainee bird used to strangers and strange surroundings . |
| 5 | ‘ This is taking the idea one step further , ’ Raff said . |
| 6 | This is taking the form of a structured public consultation leading up to the publication of a new strategy in September 1992 . |
| 7 | The secret of this is to open the end of the matchbox and , when closing it , pinch a little skin in between the base and the outside . |
| 8 | Opposition politicians argue that this is deepening the country 's involvement in peacekeeping . |
| 9 | Where this is done the funding of a visiting speaker can be shared . |
| 10 | But before this is done the Home Secretary must expressly authorize the granting of the warrant which must be endorsed with a statement of that fact . |
| 11 | When this is done the procedure rarely fails , though the choice of illumination can be delicate in some environments , particularly growth cupboards . |
| 12 | If an order of these types does not fulfil these requirements , a supplementary order should be obtained fixing the time , and until this is done the order can not be enforced . |
| 13 | This is to allow the host and hostess to take their places with the minimum of complication . |
| 14 | But this is to allow the opponent to set the terms for debate , accepting assumptions that feminists ought perhaps to question ( for example , that women should be treated equally only to the extent that they resemble men ) and thus conceding a vital part of the argument . |
| 15 | This is to allow the Commission an opportunity to determine whether or not the aid in question is compatible with the Treaty of Rome . |
| 16 | But this is to anticipate the argument ; for the moment I want only to observe that a conception of the self as socially and/or metaphysically constituted produces one idea of transgression , and that of the self as ideally ( if not actually ) unified and autonomous , quite another . |
| 17 | All that 's left to do after this is to connect the power lead and your own printer cable . |
| 18 | All that 's left to do after this is to connect the power lead and your own printer cable . |
| 19 | All I 'm gon na do after this is reproduce the list with all of the points that each person has agreed . |
| 20 | This is teaching the child to behave badly . |
| 21 | One effect of this is to force the quality press ‘ up market ’ so as to serve the wealthy reader . |
| 22 | COMMENT The normal use for this is to describe the modification . |
| 23 | This is to describe the process in the most rudimentary way . |
| 24 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 25 | A possible way of dealing with this is to use the location method ( see 2.6.1 ) . |
| 26 | A useful way of considering this is to use the concept of the dependency ratio , that is the ratio of people who are out of the labour market in relation to those who are in it . |
| 27 | One way of doing this is to use the soliloquy or aside , such flexible resources on the Elizabethan stage . |
| 28 | The aim of this is to use the Fibre Channel to share the processing of complex applications , such as stock market analyses among clustered computers — effectively providing a physical layer to underlie the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 29 | One way of doing this is to use the purchasing power parity ( PPP ) theory , also known as the law of one price . |
| 30 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |