Example sentences of "is [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for schools to work out balanced programmes for themselves , and the pressure is on to find ways of convincingly managing ever-increasing demands . |
| 2 | Until recently the products were confined to America and Europe but now the drive is on to spread the word in the Far East and Middle East . |
| 3 | Miners know the pressure is on to increase the British Coal 's competitiveness and save their jobs . |
| 4 | Fixing is on to timber battening , and because of their weight , manufacturers ' instructions should be followed closely . |
| 5 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 6 | Fight is on to keep townlands on the map |
| 7 | The pressure is on to agitate the system , to put bite into it , to become more managerial . |
| 8 | ‘ The pressure is on to make money and a lot of consultants are suffering , ’ notes Cunningham . |
| 9 | They have a tremendous hold on the industry , and the pressure is on to use more and more chemicals to get better and better yields . |
| 10 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 11 | Now , it is down to interpretation i er er and , it , on your next courses you may do a more in-depth conditions of carriage quiz which will ask you to study the conditions of carriage at night and produce a bit more detailed answer in the morning , but we 're not gon na expect you to do that on this course . |
| 12 | Such a mistake is down to inexperience , but I am still not convinced that Weir 's best position lies in the middle of the back row . |
| 13 | In the Cup , so much is down to luck of one kind or another and one flash of individual brillance can settle it . |
| 14 | Attracting interest is down to persistence . |
| 15 | Of course , much of this is down to familiarity — knowing where the goal posts are . |
| 16 | Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging . |
| 17 | The Moss/Pascale school of thought is down to earth . |
| 18 | ‘ That is down to jealousy . |
| 19 | Is away to work ? |
| 20 | With newly-growing insights , Harry now knows ‘ that my business is not to run away , but to pursue , not to avoid being found , but to seek ’ . |
| 21 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
| 22 | Their intention is not to drink , but to dance for hours on end . |
| 23 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 24 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 25 | ‘ Therefore my purpose in this book , ’ he writes , ‘ is not to state conclusions but , like a radio interviewer , to ask why and what and how , and thus to re-open a file that has perhaps been prematurely closed . ’ |
| 26 | The intention of this paper is not to blame , but to understand . |
| 27 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |
| 28 | Figure 6.2 ( b ) can be taken to represent the Earth and the Moon today , though it is not to scale and the tides have been greatly exaggerated . |
| 29 | expanded memory , and you can have up to twelve megabytes , so that 's er , twelve thousand K. This is not to scale , this is going to be much bigger than that . |
| 30 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |