Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food 's quality is not improved by the fact that the watch is rarely there to eat on time . |
| 2 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 3 | Where the auction is expressly advertised subject to a reserve price , s57(6) expressly preserves the seller 's right not to sell below the reserve price . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 5 | To succeed in thinking instead of the content , it seems , is necessarily also to think of something else , to think of that which exists for something else . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean it 's all right to sleep with you under your own roof with your mother there although it 's not quite the done thing here ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all right to ask for other people . |
| 8 | I think it is perhaps also to do with my love of remote places , my love of mountains rather than cities . |
| 9 | With these new legislations I have no power what 's so ever to do with the safety . |
| 10 | ‘ Willard is just about to propose to Angelica ! ’ |
| 11 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean you know well is probably just about to become a member of our flight I mean he 's going through he 's just about to go to the R A F College in Cranwell |
| 14 | he 's just about to come into it |
| 15 | Tonight , at the Apollo Theatre in Oxford , he 's just about to star in the smash hit musical , Barnum . |
| 16 | If there is still more to fit into a week than is humanly possible , do what a doctor advised me to do . |
| 17 | I 'd like to return to Spurn whilst it is still there to return to — before the gales of winter win their battle and demolish it yet again . |
| 18 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 19 | This large mass loss rate is probably enough to compensate for the inflow driven by the bar . |
| 20 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 21 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 22 | UVB is also chiefly to blame for burning and blistering . |
| 23 | Perhaps the Frank Slade role is a sign that Pacino is looking for something to stretch him , because he 's also about to embark on another slightly unusual project . |
| 24 | But at the start of proceedings Broderick is under no illusions about who he 's really here to talk about . |
| 25 | The towering 25-year-old Dungannon man is now about to break through the elusive century barrier on the Sony ladder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But there 's even more to disagree with , particularly in the suggested preparations we are told to make for the forthcoming holocaust . |
| 29 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 30 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |