Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empowerment enthusiasts say it is all to do with company culture and ensuring that employees are all fully conversant with the corporate goals and mission . |
| 2 | It is all to do with progress for progress ' sake . |
| 3 | It 's just that feeling light or heavy is all to do with gravity . |
| 4 | And yet presenting food is all to do with drama . |
| 5 | But the idea that this is all to do with long-windedness is quite wrong . |
| 6 | It 's all to do with motivation . |
| 7 | It 's all to do with memory and word association . |
| 8 | But yesterday 45-year-old Keith insisted : ‘ I know some people are going to say it 's all to do with Ecstasy but , honestly , it 's not . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it 's all to do with harmony . |
| 10 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 11 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 12 | The aim of this study is thus to examine in detail different kinds of provision for children with special needs in the first year of secondary schooling . |
| 13 | It is soon to appear in paperback ( and will doubtless go ‘ quadruple platinum ’ , or whatever ) and is to be a major TV series . |
| 14 | CLARENCE THE LION is soon to star on Radio Forth 's Drivetime slots , bringing roads news to listeners throughout the region . |
| 15 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 16 | Exhibitions are not strictly speaking sales settings because the prime objective is not to sell from display stands . |
| 17 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 18 | for the supply of goods or services and the supplier 's main business is not to engage in investment business |
| 19 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 20 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 21 | The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre . |
| 22 | His advice to the group , therefore , is not to spin off Baby Blues to focus on specific product areas , but rather to split business into small and large accounts . |
| 23 | The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption . |
| 24 | If self-examination is not to deteriorate into introspection or be ignored we need wise guides with whom to articulate the inner movement of our spirits and the outer movement of our lives . |
| 25 | In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments . |
| 26 | In the absolute reign of reason which is shortly to appear on earth anarchy will be a pleasant and co-operative state of affairs , since all men will be inspired to a joyful devotion to social duty and justice . |
| 27 | Two events are to be held to raise funds for HACK which is shortly to apply for charity registration . |
| 28 | It is shortly to apply for planning permission to extend the pits . |
| 29 | . What I want to come on to now is just to talk about nonlinearity , and still with reference to demand elasticities . |
| 30 | The reason for this is largely to do with SCSI hard drives and the need for double buffering — see info box . |