Example sentences of "is [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 2 | The point is rather to stress the limits of state action . |
| 3 | The problem in considering the future of fertilizers is rather to consider the changes which will occur in world agriculture , and it is already apparent that they will be many . |
| 4 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 5 | The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads . |
| 6 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 7 | The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality . |
| 8 | And the the logic of what 's being said there is effectively to abandon the flexitime scheme out of , for working out of office hours , . |
| 9 | these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way . |
| 10 | To analyse one is necessarily to involve the other two . |
| 11 | So there 's a whole a series of complicated equations that take place at different layers in the furnace and different temperatures , but the end product of of all of these is basically to produce the iron , slag and carbon dioxide , carbon monoxide and nitrogen . |
| 12 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 13 | When one is selling , one 's duty is basically to obtain the money agreed , and to relieve one 's client of any obligations relating to the property sold , and the mortgage redeemed . |
| 14 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is merely to accommodate the moths , but what the benefits are to either sloth or moth in their relationship is still not understood . |
| 17 | However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes . |
| 18 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 19 | The current excavation at the Globe is merely to assess the site 's archaeological potential . |
| 20 | The aim of this chapter is merely to draw the attention of the reader to some of the main methods of odour abatement currently available , bearing in mind that successful abatement may require a combination of the methods described below . |
| 21 | Any tumultuous exterior I offer is merely to draw the crowds . |
| 22 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 23 | The DPP 's worries are premature : the KMT 's aim in the talks is merely to establish a framework for dealing with the problems that crop up between two commercial partners whose business is booming , but whose governments have no relations . |
| 24 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 25 | In effect it is merely to restate the fact that the intuitions that sustain the case for individualism in explanation are largely our intuitions . |
| 26 | To suggest that Employment Action is merely to massage the unemployment figures is a feeble excuse for the Labour Group to it 's conscience . |
| 27 | Both topics covered have been studied in much greater depth than we have space to discuss here , but our intention is only to illustrate the breadth of applicability of the B & B philosophy . |
| 28 | To neglect maintenance , however , is only to shift the burden from one part of the household budget to another . |
| 29 | It is only to see the dentist and escape the heat . |
| 30 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |