Example sentences of "of [pron] [is] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er
2 One of which is not to open it .
3 All of which is not to deny that , in that hugely complex tradition which is Marxism , there are profound insights which need to be kept in sight .
4 We 've seen training , there have been four major steps for training and the first of which is actually to identify training needs .
5 Well , some of us in football still have principles and one of mine is never to refuse a drink .
6 Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch .
7 Recording sessions in the '90s are well organised , with musicians having at least some idea of what 's about to go down .
8 Is there in Eastern Europe a hideous environmental prototype of what is about to happen in the developing world ?
9 I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits .
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