Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of persuading people to drink sensibly is to provide good-tasting alternatives with less alcohol . |
| 2 | ( To suggest otherwise is to imply that Bukharin was suggesting that a proletarian state would regress back beyond state capitalism . ) |
| 3 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |
| 4 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 5 | What we 're going to do now is combine both of these hypotheses right into our supply response model , alright and we come out with the following . |
| 6 | Right , what we are going to do now is create a dummy variable , right , let's call it D one right so if you type D one equals zero and press the return key what you created there , right , is a new variable called D one and it assumes the value of zero , right , what I want you to do now is to edit this variable , so type edit space D one press the return key right , if you type on edit space D one you 'll then get a sheet that has all the observations for our variable D one . |
| 7 | ‘ So what we 've got to do now is find this Bel-Shamharoth person and explain things to him and perhaps he 'll let us out , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 8 | In exactly the same way as it is essential to deconstruct the rhetoric of Hansard by examining the context which structures Parliamentary debate , what we want to do here is to reveal this grounding of other contributions to this volume . |
| 9 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 10 | And all you need to do then is to find one of these in terms of the others and substitute in , and it 'll come out fairly easily . |
| 11 | Our main reason for this is the argument we referred to when discussing denunciation : that to punish disproportionately is to convey incorrect moral messages about the relative gravity of offences . |
| 12 | To argue otherwise is to betray millions of people , to condemn them to squalor , poverty , disease , starvation and death . |
| 13 | To think otherwise is to confuse moral justice with business reality . |