Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , DEC 's European Alpha partner , will port Unix System Labs Inc 's operating system to the DEC Alpha machines it is to resell under its own name from next May . |
| 2 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 3 | In 1989 the Home Affairs Select Committee announced that the work of the Police Complaints Authority is to come under its formal scrutiny and investigation . |
| 4 | The best way , however , is to benefit from your own experience . |
| 5 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best way to use dowsing in Earth Mysteries is to look for something definite — a lost markstone , for example , or an alignment . |
| 7 | One of the ways of understanding long-gone societies is to look at their cultural artifacts . |
| 8 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 9 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 10 | A more reliable method of sexing an individual is to look at its inner three fingers . |
| 11 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 12 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 13 | Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’ |
| 14 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 15 | His ambition , of course , is to challenge for his old place in the second row of the Irish scrum . |
| 16 | What a pleasure it always is to hear from my sole mate Mollie O'Finn from Bo'ness . |
| 17 | If it is to give of its best , however , it must be appreciated and affirmed by being allowed to perform on its own , in addition to leading the singing of the whole congregation . |
| 18 | On pages 206 — 211 we give some sample ready-planned daily menus made up from these meals , to show you how easy it is to keep to your preferred eating pattern and daily dieting calorie allowance . |
| 19 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 20 | For many the initial reason for entering a progressive health organization is to fight for their own rights and welfare . |
| 21 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 22 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 23 | One principal target of this non-political group is to capitalise on their public profiles to raise consumer consciousness , while putting pressure on the powers-that-be to reveal the extent to which pesticides are used — preferably through comprehensive labelling of all foods . |
| 24 | What he does is to disbelieve in his previous world view because of needs which his previous world view can no longer answer . |
| 25 | Perhaps the way forward from the potential abyss that local government could face is to return to its initial values of pluralism , public participation and local choice . |
| 26 | Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick . |
| 27 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |