Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all to do with a guilt complex . ’ |
| 2 | This is to acknowledge that the court 's role is merely to act as a long-stop . |
| 3 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 4 | WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach . |
| 5 | His chief function is not to teach as a schoolmaster teaches , but to keep abreast of thought and development in his subject — by reading , by research into new aspects , by meeting and corresponding with other specialists , by attending conferences , by travel and often by solving real-life problems affecting people outside the college . |
| 6 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 7 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 8 | The power to direct that the prohibition is not to apply to a refused application enables an applicant , whose application has been refused on grounds which are remediable or because of circumstances which are liable to change , tore-apply within a shorter period . |
| 9 | The point of mentioning this development is not to launch on a digression about professional education , important though that is . |
| 10 | No this is just to do with a |
| 11 | So the reason I put Jasper Carrott up here is just to think for a moment , here 's somebody who 's obviously a really effective and great communicator . |
| 12 | You 're outrageous you are , you 've got to have the gift of the gab in the first place , that 's just to walk into a shop or office and , my girlfriend 's think that 's what chain |
| 13 | Where there is usually to pop of a toy cannon , there is silence and , come to think of it , I do n't remember hearing the clock strike midnight either . |
| 14 | The contact procedure is usually to begin with a number of preliminary questions to ensure that the people contacted do fulfil the quota requirements . |
| 15 | As for being free — to be in thrall to a ruling obsession is hardly to exist in a state of freedom . |
| 16 | Changes in the entry of calcium ions , or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents , or the activation of NMDA receptors , all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell , but what makes the change persist — what puts the L into LTP — should be the important question , if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory . |
| 17 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 18 | LOUISE BORDUAS and dancing partner Bob Massé proved rock , n , roll is here to stay with a flippin' marvellous performance . |
| 19 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |
| 20 | THE most frequent query on a travel editor 's desk is how to travel on a cargo ship . |
| 21 | He 's about to embark on a solo tour of Britain and thought the University would be a good place to try out his new act . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares . |
| 23 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 24 | ANOTHER MAJOR P&O Properties International project is about to move into a new phase . |
| 25 | As the future shape of local government and the issue of water privatisation threaten to bring big political problems for Lang in the months ahead , he can at least breath a sigh of relief that the long-running saga of the poll tax is about to draw to a close . |
| 26 | BELFAST Rock/Blues musician Brian Scott is about to embark on a European tour in support of his new album ‘ Deliverance ’ , which will include twelve Irish dates . |
| 27 | The museum is located in the heart of Cardiff Bay , an area which is about to embark on a most exciting development on an international scale |
| 28 | After modernising and its network , BT is about to benefit from a rapid fall-off in investment and staffing costs . |
| 29 | The idea is to get Western hi-tech companies to sponsor the events , and X/Open is about to begin on a 90 day roadshow to drum up industry support . |
| 30 | Red-haired Siobhan starred as Don Henderson 's cheeky sidekick in TV 's Bullman and is about to appear as a detective sergeant in the BBC1 police drama Between the Lines . |