Example sentences of "is [verb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh mostly that really , supposedly going to America in February the sixth and the doctor , she said to the doctor what 's the matter and he said you 're really , really run down then he said to her what I suggest you do is to go and buy some cartons of fresh orange juice , a jar of honey and some natural live yoghurt and she 's ate it all , now she 's got diarrhoea ca n't win can ya ? |
| 2 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 3 | When a solute is dissolved in a liquid , scattering from a volume element again arises from liquid inhomogeneities , but now an additional contribution from fluctuations in the solute concentration is present and for polymer solutions the problem is to isolate and measure these additional effects . |
| 4 | erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm |
| 5 | We have an uncompromising attitude sadly lacking in a lot of what 's coming out at the moment , which is partly to do with not being 18 or 19-year-olds who were really into something that happened fairly recently , whose major motivation is to try and copy that somehow . |
| 6 | The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them . |
| 7 | The purpose of this chapter is to try and clarify these issues by asking : ( a ) what is quality in health care ? ( b ) whose quality are we talking about ? ( c ) how can quality be turned into a reality in the new NHS ? |
| 8 | I think the most important thing is to try and find that gap in the market that is not well trodden by a lot of other people — to find something which you can do which is different from all the rest of them . |
| 9 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
| 10 | The object of the game is to try and become this Priest of Paris , who begins the game choosing any number and saying , for example : ‘ The Priest of Paris has lost his ( her ) thinking cap . |
| 11 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 12 | Overall , our clear aim is to encourage and reward those who are willing to learn and grow , and , in the process , increase their contribution to our success . |
| 13 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 14 | ‘ Part of my function is to supervise and instruct those junior to me , male or female . |
| 15 | As co-ordinator my main aim is to define and document all current planning for RLS centenary events in order to produce a joint leaflet or brochure to publicise these events during 1994 . |
| 16 | Their task is to define and record all those terms that clinicians use in their medical records and to ensure that the appropriate Read codes are attached to each term . |
| 17 | An initial aim of this project is to identify and categorize those areas of common land over which the general public have a legal right of access . |
| 18 | This model is expressed graphically using IS and LM curves , so part of our task is to derive and explain these curves . |
| 19 | Now what we want to do is try and draw some sort of picture for that . |
| 20 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 21 | What I 'll probably do is try and get some running , I 'll take that one and that one |
| 22 | The need is to protect and retain those that are landmarks . |
| 23 | The more practical challenge that faces the taxonomic community is to describe and classify all the species that are known to inhabit the world . |
| 24 | ‘ What you can do is go and get that money . |
| 25 | The research is to uncover and outline all the elements upon which multiple territorial entities could arise . |
| 26 | The duty of Her Majesty 's Government , whoever may form that Government , is to maintain and improve those standards of living . |
| 27 | AEA believes , therefore , that there is much to be gained from the coherence of its business units and that an important part of its task is to maintain and develop such coherence in the future . |
| 28 | The aim is to investigate and explain this shift using the particular example of the English relation to Jamaica . |
| 29 | Attribute data is most often obtained in computer-readable form direct from agencies whose function it is to collect and distribute such data . |
| 30 | Research at the University of New Hampshire in the United States shows that the single most effective method of controlling apple scab is to collect and burn all fallen leaves from infected trees in autumn . |