Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the discipline of such action , that is , through karma yoga , which involves ahi sā , we come to the realization of Truth or God , for to realize God is to see Him in all that lives , and to recognize our oneness with all creation . |
| 2 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 3 | The best way to do this is to compare it with real paddlers . |
| 4 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 5 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 6 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 7 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 8 | One of the most important things to learn regarding conflict is to accept it as one of the normal challenges of life . |
| 9 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 10 | The male 's usual pattern is to position himself on higher ground , above the females , keeping careful watch on their every move . |
| 11 | ‘ You must be Mr Sachs , what a pleasure it is to meet you at last . ’ |
| 12 | The next step — and this is the one the BMC wanted to impress most forcefully on our visitors — is to terrify yourself on some dripping mass of rock devoid of adequate protection . |
| 13 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 14 | The trick , of course , for those who borrowed when rates were low , is to lock themselves into those rates with fixed-rate borrowing . |
| 15 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp 's NTT Mobile Communications Network is to split itself into nine regional units : its present headquarters in Tokyo will become the group 's parent company , which will wholly own the equity of the eight subsidiaries , and the move is intended to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the fight with its biggest domestic rival Daini Denden Inc , which has no unit in Tokyo and Tokai area , which together account for half the population . |
| 16 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 17 | One way to reduce the size of a search tree is to split it into smaller sub-trees representing more manageable sub-problems . |
| 18 | The aim is to create something like this … and that means the judges methodically comparing furrows . |
| 19 | Our first degree of specialisation to make the notion useful is to restrict ourselves to linear operators . |
| 20 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |
| 21 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 22 | How much better it is to surround oneself with nice paintings of collie dogs and children , sunsets and young lovers holding hands … ’ |
| 23 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 24 | • The second , less-predictable method , is to grow plenty of macro algae such as Caulerpa spp . |
| 25 | what I 've tried to do is not to and we 've had the money , is to buy one in each set cos we have n't got the money to buy full sets , thirty books is a joke ! |
| 26 | The best thing to do when faced with cupboard traumas is to buy lots of clever accessories that hang from every available hook . |
| 27 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 28 | The alternative , when plutonium is seen as a fuel , is to load it into existing Russian reactors , unused to the stuff and already regarded as unsafe by outsiders . |
| 29 | But the only way to measure whether you 're planning optimistic , pessimistically , realistically , is to do something like this . |
| 30 | Her response to ‘ free ’ time is to fill it with more housework , and her housework ideals shape the way she brings up her children ( the insistence on not letting a messy three year old feed herself , for example ) . |