Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do n't let's , do n't let's try and assume the , all we 're , all we 're trying to do is to gather together the bit that we can put into the pot , and to present it in a logical fashion , to say , if this , then we belief that , and if that , then we believe the other , |
| 2 | A useful activity is to pull together the governors of several neighbouring schools for training and updating on topical issues . |
| 3 | They spoke of ‘ an increasing displacement of the traditional curriculum in favour of new and artificial subjects ’ ; and they concluded that instead of such ‘ infantilizing ’ nonsense , ‘ the difficult subjects of the traditional curriculum are … the thing that is required if a child is to obtain either the competence necessary for a successful adult life , or the wider understanding and enriched experience which are the greatest benefits of education ’ . |
| 4 | The further away in time the message was situated , the less likely the speaker is to remember precisely the date and time at which it occurred , and the larger the time-span he is likely to make available for it to have occurred in . |
| 5 | One of the best ways to keep pro-active is to feed regularly the client with new information — even rumour and gossip — that show him you are thinking about his company and its commercial interests . |
| 6 | The other more promising line of investigation is to explore directly the nature of conversational interaction . |
| 7 | So an essential skill of counselling is to avoid completely the giving of advice , and to allow counsellees to take what eventually must be their responsibility to arrive at their own decision , in their own time and in their own way . |
| 8 | So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden . |
| 9 | Another approach is to group together the readers of various right-wing papers and contrast them with readers of left-wing papers . |
| 10 | The end of the nineteenth century was the climax of the Age of Science ; what remains for us is to glimpse briefly the aftermath of that confident period in which it seemed that all the interesting questions must have answers , and that it was the business of natural philosophy to find them out . |
| 11 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
| 12 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 13 | The simplest method of all , where body concealment is concerned , is to match perfectly the colour of the background . |
| 14 | The job of the statisticians employed by government to produce national accounts is to piece together the picture as best they can , using both methods , and as much of the available data as possible . |
| 15 | The first step in the construction of this diagram is to consider separately the conditions for equilibrium for the representative firm on the one hand , and for the representative household on the other . |
| 16 | One method of calculating the value of a claim is to consider separately the cost of materials , plant , labour , temporary works and indirect costs . |
| 17 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 18 | The principal repercussion of introducing rational expectations into macroeconomic models is to shorten dramatically the lags in adjustment which have traditionally preoccupied macroeconomists from widely differing ideological positions . |
| 19 | The B ♭ in the bass must be tied over and held throughout the following bar in our transcription if it is to convey faithfully the composer 's intention . |
| 20 | The aim of the training programme outlined earlier is to raise substantially the skills of both those in work and those seeking it . |
| 21 | The aim of this research is to investigate empirically the variations in Britain 's strike activity over time and the variations between Britain and other EEC countries in the post-war period . |
| 22 | The simplest way of introducing the method is to present again the field lines and the equipotential surfaces for two equal charges of opposite sign ( Fig. 2.4 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 24 | The intention is to link directly the employment policies and practices of firms to the attitudes , skills and job orientation of their employees . |
| 25 | A fourth method is to examine again the appropriateness of the rules restricting actions brought by groups of plaintiffs , which would mean that the costs were spread amongst a number of people . |
| 26 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 27 | The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact . |
| 28 | Another way of approaching the accelerationist hypothesis is to rearrange slightly the equation for the expectations-augmented Phillips curve . |
| 29 | The object of orders for discovery under the Supreme Court and County Courts Acts is to bring forward the time for the disclosure of relevant documents in a personal injury action by , to use the wording of RSC Ord 24 , r7A , a " likely " party from the stage after action to the stage before action , and to require disclosure after the commencement of proceedings by someone who is not a party to the proceedings at all , eg , a health authority ( Walker v Eli Lilley & Co ( 1986 ) The Times , 1 May ) . |
| 30 | The second was the collaborative approach in which the main objective is to bring together the skills and concepts of predetermined subject areas . |