Example sentences of "is [adv] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 2 | This is greatly to simplify an already schematic plot , but the pattern of action is clear enough : it is essentially a comedy of identity , in the manner of late Victorian melodrama , upon which Eliot has grafted his characteristic exposition of the religious sensibility . |
| 3 | The intention of the assailants is obviously to create an ‘ ethnically clean ’ Serbian corridor in eastern Bosnia as a prelude to partitioning the state . |
| 4 | All can be upgraded using Intel 's clock-doubling OverDrive technology which is soon to offer an upgrade path to Pentium standard performance . |
| 5 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 6 | The first aim of this chapter , however , is not to give an account of cognitio and its development . |
| 7 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 8 | A study of Dalcroze Eurythmics from which such ideas emanate is valuable , but the practice must be used with discretion if the resultant ballet is not to resemble an examination of machinery rather than a feeling fur the rhythm and shape of the engine that makes the dancers perform . |
| 9 | The aim is not to find an expert , but somebody who will pass callers on to experts . |
| 10 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 11 | What we 'll be doing at first then is just to take an overview of the house , you would n't necessarily get that on an ordinary tour . |
| 12 | The aim is always to select an appropriate method , one which answers the question as clearly as possible . |
| 13 | To widen a car eighteen millimetres is equivalent to widening goal posts by half a foot ; to violate the rules is always to seek an advantage . |
| 14 | The first function of the Commons is still to sustain an effective government . |
| 15 | Professor David Pearce , a University College London economist and author of the Pearce report on the use of taxes to control pollution , is also to remain an adviser . |
| 16 | It is also to assert an ethnically , or nationality-based citizenship to the exclusion of those who do not share that particular cultural tendency . |
| 17 | The task of the salesman is both to establish an ongoing relationship with his customer , and also to charge as close as possible to what the market will bear . |
| 18 | Claiming to possess within the sonnet 's language the truth of the youth 's beauty is now to admit an absent centre . |
| 19 | The Joint Co-ordinating Committee to be set up to maintain standards countrywide is now to have an independent chairman . |
| 20 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |
| 21 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 22 | A great deal of research has been undertaken into the understanding of TSPs and our intention here is simply to illustrate an alternative branching scheme using the special structure of the problem . |
| 23 | ( With nouns in the plural , such as students , the convention is simply to add an apostrophe , as in " the students ' books " ; with names already ending in " s " , apostrophe " s " is still generally added — so Keats 's , rather than Keats ' , though the apostrophe without an additional " s " is nearly always used for ancient classical names , as in Augustus ' . ) |
| 24 | The presumption of innocence is also concerned with victims ' rights : it is there to prevent an innocent suspect from becoming the second victim of a crime . |
| 25 | What a temptation it is then to prolong an interruption , to ask precisely where a lost teddy was last seen before leading the child slowly through every room of this vast house until the creature is found . |
| 26 | EAU d'Huddersfield , until now submerged among gritty northern brews like dandelion and burdock , is about to mount an assault on the Perrier market for continental mineral water . |
| 27 | His life becomes even more complicated though when he starts to fall in love with his best friend 's lover and learns that his ex-wife is about to publish an expose of their marriage . |
| 28 | ‘ As both of you know , ’ he said , glancing from Carew to Major Calder , ‘ the Chief Commissioner is about to undergo an operation . |
| 29 | An example of corporate information might be where the company itself is about to announce an increase in profits , or , a take-over bid . |
| 30 | Hartley Green , the elder , is about to establish an academy at Manchester , and might find employment for his Brother , but he wishes rather to make his own way . |