Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PPC If you are dead set against replacing your motherboard ( which is the option I 'd go for ) then your only alternative , other than buying a new set up , is to go for a processor replacement card . |
| 2 | If they like it , the answer is to go for a swim by buying PEPs , ’ says Amanda . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'd really like to do now is to go for a drink with you . |
| 4 | The normal ‘ use ’ is to go for a joyride , to get home after missing the last bus or train or for the use in crime . |
| 5 | Visitors from all over the region are converging on the Gray Art Gallery and Museum , Hartlepool , to see an exhibition of the work of realist painter John Bratby , which is to go on a UK tour . |
| 6 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 7 | A third reason why dieting makes you fat is because fat is less metabolically active than muscle … the one sure way to slow the body down and so create the conditions for getting fat is to go on a diet |
| 8 | Of course his first move is to go to a pub . |
| 9 | The best advice is to go to a specialist consumer credit/hire purchase lawyer for information on this very important matter . |
| 10 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 11 | The money is to go in a penalty box kept by Grandmother ; the proceeds will go to a charity . |
| 12 | The aim is to invest in a distance learning system and materials appropriate for some 70,000 NHS managers at the threshold of their managerial careers , with a take up of 3000 participants per year , at a cost somewhere between £ 100,000 to £300,000 for initial development . |
| 13 | The other is to invest in a hierarchy of managers : lower and middle managers to oversee day-to-day operations , senior managers to coordinate and plan . |
| 14 | One option which they should very seriously consider is to invest in a bond fund . |
| 15 | The UK Post Office is to invest in a fleet of electrically-powered delivery vans , manufactured by a Newcastle-based company , HIL Electric . |
| 16 | Wakefield SSD is to appeal against a £1,000 compensation order after a 14-year old child in its care was found guilty of mugging a pensioner . |
| 17 | The plaintive cry of the deputy head that ‘ the only way to get a pat on the head around here is to sit under a cow ’ will strike home with staff , children and parents in many primary schools . |
| 18 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 19 | Carpetright is to float with a price tag of £113.6m at 148p a share in a move which will enable another major investor , the MFI furniture group , to raise a total of £21.7m which will be used to cut debt . |
| 20 | Carpetright is to float with a price tag of £113.6m at 148p a share in a move which will enable another major investor , the MFI furniture group , to raise a total of £21.7m which will be used to cut debt . |
| 21 | It will be readily appreciated how important it is to agree on a name which reflects the separate identities ( and vanities ) of the firms involved without assuming Dickensian proportions and which at the same time commands the approval of any public relations consultant who has been engaged . |
| 22 | The long term aim is to agree on a set of standards by which an " eco-label " could be awarded to timber products which come from genuinely sustainable sources . |
| 23 | Many couples find a good way to avoid impulsive spending is to agree on a limit of , say £5 or £10 as all that can be spent without consulting the other partner . |
| 24 | If this proves a success , the plan is to proceed with a second listing to bring Mr Berlusconi 's TV and advertising interests to the market . |
| 25 | A more subtle form of restriction is to proceed by a philosophy akin to that of apartheid . |
| 26 | He is to appear in a Christmas pantomime this year . |
| 27 | The idea is to jump from a height of four and a half thousand feet to a tiny disc in the jump zone . |
| 28 | If the problem is to be resolved now , the only option open to the Killinchy Club is to try for a date outside of the month of May 1994 , which would leave all the options open for any North West date . |
| 29 | That is to try for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through a United Nations peace conference . |
| 30 | What we 're trying is to work through a variety of things now to insure we get as many bobbies as possible back on the beat . |