Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While colours in clothes can glitter and clash without restraint , the secret for make-up is to think of a flash of brilliance amongst the neutrals , not a complete exotic plumage .
2 What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use .
3 Another interesting way to fill a flower bed is to think of a colour scheme and plant out accordingly .
4 A common fault here is to think of the rotor disc as being the model , and watch it describe a graceful turn only to find that the fuselage is now pointing its tail at the ground .
5 One common way is to think of the United Kingdom 's economy as a national entity where the different parts — the various industries , banks , sections of the labour force and so on — are bound together by relations and institutions which are internal and national .
6 Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device .
7 One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ .
8 Another way of handling indexicals is to think of the specification of the content of an utterance as a two stage affair : the " meaning " of an utterance is a function from contexts ( sets of indices ) to propositions , which are in turn functions from possible worlds to truth values ( Montague , 1970 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) .
9 Another way of looking at it is to think of an actor who rehearses and rehearses his lines in order that his performance may be as near perfect as possible on opening night .
10 To speak of a standard effect is to speak of an event necessitated by a circumstance , and to imply the existence of such an effect by speaking of a cause is to imply the existence of a necessitated event .
11 As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) .
12 What 's to become of the pool of labour when the heart and soul is torn from London by the ruler of the political obviously , no consideration for the human consequences of its policies .
13 A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood .
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