Example sentences of "this [is] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1979 , well before the Iran hostage crisis , Carter 's approval rating , as measured by an ABC-Harris poll , had slumped to 25 per cent and in commenting on the crisis of national leadership Lance Morrow wrote : This is to state in moderately colourful terms some of the points raised in previous pages and also addressed by Jimmy Carter himself in his memoirs : It is difficult to quarrel with the main thrust of Carter 's observations , although indiscipline within the Democratic party was hardly a new development . |
| 2 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 3 | Another way to put this is to point out that it is interesting and significant that many females are not alienated from mathematics . |
| 4 | One way of doing this is to point out the less organized character of a movement , in which there may be no regular or easily identifiable membership ( no ‘ party card ’ or dues ) , and little in the way of a central office or staff . |
| 5 | Which is all fair and well — I assume the purpose of this is to block off certain routes to force the gameplayer to explore more thoroughly . |
| 6 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 7 | The ignorant response to this is to give up in despair , and to slump back agnostically into the comfortable armchair . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps the only way to end this is to give in to it , ’ Travis offered , unconscious of the fact that his thumb began to caress her skin . |
| 9 | The easiest way to resolve this is to write down what you think the job should be — as described above . |
| 10 | The object is to win — and the way to achieve this is to knock out the opponent . |
| 11 | The cost of this is to come out of the subscription of £25 per year . |
| 12 | Mr Major has worked out the best way to do this is to read out lists . |
| 13 | The cure for this is to break up and remove all the affected concrete , right back to sound material . |
| 14 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 15 | A variation on this is to tie up various small items , such as toys or candies in wrappers inside a bag made of fairly strong paper . |
| 16 | A variation on this is to jump up and try to tuck your legs into your chest , touching your knees with your hands . |
| 17 | The quickest way to do this is to rub out dotted lines on a map . |