Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed is almost enough to lever a Windows user out of his comfortable environment and back into DOS ( but some of us will just wait for the Windows version ! ) . |
| 2 | A significant training programme is also underway to raise the professionalism at divisional and operating company level , to match the increasing sophistication of management required in this area . |
| 3 | It means , according to , ‘ meeting the client , not just during a transaction but regularly to show an interest in the business and make the client comfortable , that while a lawyer is there primarily to earn a living he or she will act in the best interests of the business rather than in the best interests of the till . ’ |
| 4 | The role of the occupational health department is not only to provide a service to those who are unwell but to assist the employer to gain the maximum benefit from the labour force by maintaining and promoting health among staff , thus reducing absence . |
| 5 | A chapter is not enough to describe this fine mountain . |
| 6 | The income from lambs , a few older sheep and wool is hardly enough to pay the wages for a shepherd . |
| 7 | The notes of guidance to the Code stress that the purpose of any interview is not necessarily to obtain an admission but to obtain from the suspect his explanation of the facts . |
| 8 | The intention is not only to record the whereabouts of existing and established collections , but to make available to researchers up-to-date information about less well known groups of records , especially those still in private hands . |
| 9 | In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance . |
| 10 | This is seen as crucial in attracting people away from the current crop of cramped top-of-the-range coupes — essential if the car is not simply to draw existing Bentley customers from the Turbo R. |
| 11 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 12 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 13 | Sometimes the rainfall in winter is barely enough to cancel out the soil moisture deficit . |
| 14 | Behind the scenes at its National Training Centre at Roland Garros , work is already underway to capitalise on France 's magnificent Davis Cup victory over the United States in Lyon in December . |
| 15 | Work is also underway to develop more specialist modules to support and link with forthcoming SVQs . |
| 16 | Two pints of winter headbanger is usually enough to stun an armadillo . |
| 17 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 18 | All I do now is regress our model right , including just a , a cons a constant dummy , right , so if you specify your regression equation , just add D to the list of explanatory variables , right , so we are assuming that the effect on the textile consumption is simply just to move the demand function up , right , use the entire sample period amongst this estimation . |
| 19 | ‘ The label of an actuary is usually enough to have people take note of what you are talking about ’ was one young actuary 's recent verdict on the reputation of the profession . |
| 20 | The tendency in the Council is therefore always to lean towards a choice of legal base requiring unanimous voting . |
| 21 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |
| 22 | But , the VGA stresses , psychometric testing is not there to glean the wheat and discard the chaff . |
| 23 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 24 | When the capital stock has adjusted to its new steady-state level , the rise in the gross rate of return is just enough to offset the tax , and it is the wage rate that is reduced . |
| 25 | Given that it would be unsatisfactory to have a single offence , then the question is how best to divide up the forms and degrees of physical violation and of sexual assault . |
| 26 | The question is how best to approach the study of such interaction . |
| 27 | The Conservative philosophy is not just to increase spending . |
| 28 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 29 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 30 | The job is not only to describe , to say for example ‘ Sixty-four per cent of the land was planted with maize on 30 June ’ , but to make meanings and intentions plain . |