Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 2 | The simplest way to encourage this is to push a bamboo cane into the ground to leave a sloping hole 5–6in deep , inserting the tip of the shoot into this and treading firm . |
| 3 | One way to tackle these is to recall the words of musicians who were disturbed by unitary control . |
| 4 | Lipschitz notes that ‘ while feminist therapists can attempt the abolition of inhibition in empowering practices , they can not abolish repression … to suggest this is to abolish the unconscious ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) . |
| 5 | Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct . |
| 6 | Well it , ah well , of course the other thing you 'd have to do to do that is put a top |
| 7 | well the reason that we 've changed the name on those two stores is that any experiments we want to conduct have got to be conducted outside the normal M F I promotional platform and as we use the national press extensively the only way to do that is to change the name . |
| 8 | The decision-making age must truly be shifted from 16 to 18 ; the way to do that is to increase the number of A-levels to six for university entrance , and require passes in all of them . |
| 9 | We 'll need to conserve heat , and the best way to do that is to share the sleeping-bag , ’ he pointed out with the sort of logic that was unbeatable . |
| 10 | To stress this is to labour the obvious , but it underlines the point that no one can know exhaustively how he knows what he knows . |
| 11 | A device to do this is called a gravity gradiometer . |
| 12 | They have guaranteed to maintain confidentiality ( they do not keep names and addresses ) but perhaps the safest way to do this is to edit the material to be given by your department or exclude any material that is remotely confidential . |
| 13 | The safest way to do this is to write a program which consists of only the machine code routines and enough BBCBASIC(Z80) to assemble them . |
| 14 | As far as I can see , the only way to do this is to adopt a behaviouristic approach to this knowledge and characterize it as an ability to discriminate visual objects . |
| 15 | The writers who have developed the systems approach , however , have been at pains to emphasise that organisations should not be viewed merely as closed systems ; to do this is to adopt a very static picture of how they operate ( Elliott , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | The best way to do this is to run a high output airpump discharging into the void below a chamber . |
| 17 | One way to do this is to make the separator an unusual character , say CHR$ ( 127 ) . |
| 18 | The best way to do this is to have a series of numbered points with headings and then to write concise summaries under each heading . |
| 19 | The most efficient way to do this is to bind the legs tightly , so it is more fun to leave them relatively loose . |
| 20 | One simple way to do this is to line the window reveals with mirror glass so that more light is reflected into the room . |
| 21 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 22 | The direct way to assess this is to feed the rodents with large doses of substances that are known to be innocuous . |
| 23 | To break this is to break the code , so it is rarely given . |
| 24 | The only real way to check this is to remove the inlet manifold and gasket and look at the camshaft lobes , comparing them with each other . |
| 25 | Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper , mischievous or illegal , he must take the consequences of his own temerity . " |
| 26 | One way to cure this is to play the ball further back in the stance to the centre or just right of centre ( photo 1 ) . |
| 27 | The best way to explain this is to make a simple experiment . |
| 28 | But to say this is to confuse a sensation with its cause or object . |
| 29 | But to say this is to reinforce the point already made : that academic discourse has a common foundation in being self-critical in its inner structure and underlying interest . |
| 30 | To say this is to adopt a quasi-evolutionary view , close to Minsky 's , not in terms of debugging and repair , but in terms of attention and processing load : to be able to concentrate on everything is not to be able to concentrate at all . |