Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 2 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 3 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 4 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 5 | Before going ahead and mixing a perfume as directed in the ‘ Aromatic Concoctions ’ section , the easiest and perhaps the most economical way to experiment is to put a few drops on a damp cotton wool stick . |
| 6 | The usual method of taking the Bach Remedies is to put a few drops in a cup of springwater which is then sipped at intervals . |
| 7 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter is to summarise the many arguments currently being canvassed about the effects of high technology on employment . |
| 9 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 10 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 11 | The idea of the ballet is to sketch a few facets of a man 's life as seen by him ( hence Unisoculous — one eye ) . |
| 12 | One good idea is to analyse a few stories by your favourite authors before you begin , not to begin , not to copy their style , but to find out how much plot you need for 5000 words or less . |
| 13 | Keith Richardson 's next task is to beat the all blacks … he 's in charge of the young England team to face New Zealand at Gloucester tomorrow night … |
| 14 | But to read Wittgenstein as a behaviourist is to ignore the many passages in which he explicitly disavows that he is attacking one experiential explanation only to embrace another , and to ignore his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 15 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 16 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 17 | Thankfully that treatment went out of fashion , but the current fashion is to blame the same symptoms on poor circulation in the brain and give cerebral vasodilators , remedies that enlarge blood vessels in the brain . |