Example sentences of "[to-vb] this is [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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A device to do this is called a gravity gradiometer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The best way to do this is to run a high output airpump discharging into the void below a chamber . |
| 11 | One way to do this is to make the separator an unusual character , say CHR$ ( 127 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The most efficient way to do this is to bind the legs tightly , so it is more fun to leave them relatively loose . |
| 14 | One simple way to do this is to line the window reveals with mirror glass so that more light is reflected into the room . |
| 15 | The direct way to assess this is to feed the rodents with large doses of substances that are known to be innocuous . |
| 16 | To break this is to break the code , so it is rarely given . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The best way to explain this is to make a simple experiment . |
| 21 | But to say this is to confuse a sensation with its cause or object . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If you want a more definite pattern or motif the easiest method to achieve this is to use a stencil . |
| 25 | The best way for the government to achieve this is to keep a tight grip on the tigerish tendencies of the economy . |
| 26 | The best way to achieve this is to place the front hand on the mast below the boom as you lean the rig back . |
| 27 | Yet even to note this is to identify a radical shift in the shape , not only geographical but spiritual , of Christendom . |