Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 2 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 3 | The first and foremost step in planning a food facility is to establish what the facility is going to sell , and what type of function is required from the service facility . |
| 4 | In The weather is fine , for example , is would normally constitute the transition ( assuming the communicative purpose of the utterance is to state what the weather is like ) . |
| 5 | So one of the ways to overcome that is to set yourself a target to do more |
| 6 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 7 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
| 8 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 9 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 10 | He told BBC 's Six O'Clock News : ‘ The Prime Minister 's job is to do what the people of his country want , not what the leaders of other countries want . ’ |
| 11 | The right course , so the argument runs , is to do what the Attorney-General would have done but for the reverses suffered in the extradition proceedings , namely to postpone the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. trials until B.M.F.L. is out of the way . |
| 12 | To encourage the basically extrovert person to develop his praying in a way more suited to the introvert is to do him a disservice , and since many books on prayer are written by introverts we can quickly fall into this trap . |
| 13 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 14 | All it achieves is to give them an air of generosity , and so put Abraham at an even greater disadvantage in the rounds to come . |
| 15 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 16 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 17 | I think the best thing for me to do now is to give you a day by day account of what has happened since we have been here . |
| 18 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 19 | Well my understanding of team briefings , very quickly , is is to give you an example , after C S M T , what we should do is one of us should actually write down the key points from C S M T that you want to communicate to staff . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for arranging it is to give you the chance to be responsible for your own learning while you are on the placement . |
| 21 | The purpose of the rest of this book is to give you the information you need to compile the missing nutritional manual that will tell you what is just right for your body . |
| 22 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 23 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
| 24 | And erm the we are given or they h one of the reasons or the purposes behind Confirmation is to give us the strength to use the gifts which God 's al has already given us . |
| 25 | To buy a Stag just for its investment potential is to deny yourself the sort of al fresco luxury that most people can only dream about in a new car . |
| 26 | Indeed the closer one focuses attention on the words and how they are made up , the less likely one is to understand what the passage is about . |
| 27 | The only way to reach an informed decision is to understand what the menopause entails and exactly how HRT works . |
| 28 | All you have to do is to mail us a postcard with your name and address written on it together with your answer to the following simple question : |
| 29 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 30 | It is to save them the need to refer to the very foundations of morality and practical reasoning generally in every case . |