Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food 's quality is not improved by the fact that the watch is rarely there to eat on time . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 3 | To succeed in thinking instead of the content , it seems , is necessarily also to think of something else , to think of that which exists for something else . |
| 4 | I think it is perhaps also to do with my love of remote places , my love of mountains rather than cities . |
| 5 | ‘ Willard is just about to propose to Angelica ! ’ |
| 6 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 7 | Behind the scenes at its National Training Centre at Roland Garros , work is already underway to capitalise on France 's magnificent Davis Cup victory over the United States in Lyon in December . |
| 8 | If there is still more to fit into a week than is humanly possible , do what a doctor advised me to do . |
| 9 | I 'd like to return to Spurn whilst it is still there to return to — before the gales of winter win their battle and demolish it yet again . |
| 10 | This large mass loss rate is probably enough to compensate for the inflow driven by the bar . |
| 11 | However you do the sums , the levy is clearly there to pay for history ; the Select Committee said it is ‘ indefensible that so much of the burden of discharging the pre-April 1990 liabilities should be placed on electricity consumers within one eight-year period ’ . |
| 12 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 13 | UVB is also chiefly to blame for burning and blistering . |
| 14 | The towering 25-year-old Dungannon man is now about to break through the elusive century barrier on the Sony ladder . |
| 15 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 16 | In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance . |
| 17 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 18 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 19 | It would be foolish as well as useless , he said , to worry about how to cope with tomorrow when there is quite enough to cope with today . |
| 20 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 21 | The evidence for this conclusion is hard indeed to discover in the adult sea squirt , but more visible in its larva . |
| 22 | And in the other Peter is taught by God that he is no longer to abide by the old Jewish distinctions of clean and unclean . |
| 23 | This enterprise is no longer to depend on discourses drawn from outside . |
| 24 | There is nowhere else to go for us . |
| 25 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 26 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ But it is too soon to pronounce on these matters with any certainty , ’ he went on smoothly . |
| 28 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |
| 29 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |
| 30 | The health authorities say it is too soon to comment on the implications of the figures as yet as they still have to be assessed in the light of the type and ages of the people who responded . |