Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days . |
| 32 | In this case the only way to be sure is to go through the procedure of HIV testing . |
| 33 | Okay , what I 'd like to do now is to go through the pads that you 've been given . |
| 34 | The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction , or with subversion and disdain . |
| 35 | From Portela , an alternative route is to go along the north coast through Porto da Cruz and Faial . |
| 36 | The case , because of its serious nature , is to go before the Crown Court and is likely to be subject to considerable delay due to the inefficiencies of the court listing procedures . |
| 37 | The scheme is to go before the island 's Legislative Council for approval in defiance of its giant neighbour . |
| 38 | A bill is to go before the Commons to allow boys under fourteen years old to face rape charges . |
| 39 | In fact it does the most natural thing , which is to go round the end of the opening . |
| 40 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 41 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
| 42 | After all , most of us who live here know what there is to see in the area . |
| 43 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 44 | AFTER 65 years , the gavel is to fall at the London Auction Mart for the final time . |
| 45 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 46 | Alan Beith is to debate on the Jimmy Young show that made Mrs Thatcher all those years ago , with John Smith and Norman Lamont . |
| 47 | It 's to go to the St John 's School for deaf children in Leeds . |
| 48 | I suppose it 's to go in the book . ’ |
| 49 | With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo . |
| 50 | A BOY told by US Vice-President Dan Quayle to spell potato with an E is to report on the Republican Convention for New York radio . |
| 51 | The primary task of the external auditors is to report on the truth and fairness of the financial statements which are presented to the members at their annual general meeting . |
| 52 | Their main job is to report to the Secretary of State on the education provided in schools and colleges ( since 1983 , all formal HMI reports have been published ) , and to give professional advice to the DES . |
| 53 | One of the important jobs of a Leader of the House is to report to the Cabinet and tell it what it can not do . |
| 54 | The best defence is to drive within the limit . |
| 55 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 56 | What you have to do in this case is to strip off the paint from the binding edge , then plane off a little wood before repainting — including the vulnerable top and bottom edges of the window . |
| 57 | It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord . |
| 58 | A surgeon banned from driving for 14 days and fined £105 for speeding at 104mph on his way to hospital to operate is to appeal to the Crown Court . |
| 59 | One way to handle different bit mapping schemes is to include in the header details such as the number of bit planes , bits per pixel , pixels per scan line , and the number of scan lines . |
| 60 | One embellishment to list-making which I have found keeps my spirits up is to include in the list ( a ) one or two things I have done already ; ( b ) a few things that are easy and unproblematic ; ( c ) the item ‘ Make List ’ . |