Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
| 2 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 3 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 4 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 5 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 6 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 7 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
| 8 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 9 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 10 | Before going ahead and mixing a perfume as directed in the ‘ Aromatic Concoctions ’ section , the easiest and perhaps the most economical way to experiment is to put a few drops on a damp cotton wool stick . |
| 11 | The usual method of taking the Bach Remedies is to put a few drops in a cup of springwater which is then sipped at intervals . |
| 12 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 13 | The aim of this chapter is to summarise the many arguments currently being canvassed about the effects of high technology on employment . |
| 14 | A KOREAN company is to salvage a former Ferranti International operation in the Lothians . |
| 15 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 16 | All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else . |
| 17 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 18 | The idea of the ballet is to sketch a few facets of a man 's life as seen by him ( hence Unisoculous — one eye ) . |
| 19 | One good idea is to analyse a few stories by your favourite authors before you begin , not to begin , not to copy their style , but to find out how much plot you need for 5000 words or less . |
| 20 | The main intention is to have the former LMS locomotive restored back to full working order , hopefully in 18 months ' time . |
| 21 | Keith Richardson 's next task is to beat the all blacks … he 's in charge of the young England team to face New Zealand at Gloucester tomorrow night … |
| 22 | But to read Wittgenstein as a behaviourist is to ignore the many passages in which he explicitly disavows that he is attacking one experiential explanation only to embrace another , and to ignore his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 23 | That is to say a little evidence against it will cause him agonies of doubt and self-mistrust , moderate amounts will cause some real concern and a pursing of his lips — but total and irrefutable proof of his law 's inaccuracy , its illogic , its basic and undeniable untenability , will cause him to cling to it in all its unmodified entirety with the tenacity and single-mindedness of a barnacle . |
| 24 | The simple answer is to close the same eye whenever a car approaches ; that is your ‘ night eye ’ . |
| 25 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 26 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 27 | You were talking earlier about er applying the lessons learned here from the tornado programme to Eurofighter , surely the best way of doing so is to involve the same people , they 're in the same building . |
| 28 | Thankfully that treatment went out of fashion , but the current fashion is to blame the same symptoms on poor circulation in the brain and give cerebral vasodilators , remedies that enlarge blood vessels in the brain . |