Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that the efficient way to plan projects is to take them in order of priority — the marketing function has a major interest in priority setting — and allocate to each in turn the maximum amount of resources it can usefully employ . |
| 2 | The only way you can have a reasonably fair assessment of weight loss if you are trying to lose weight is to weigh yourself once a week , on the same scales , at the same time of the day and preferably with no clothes on ! |
| 3 | The Dolphin Sunday Dance Club is to hold an old time and modern sequence dance tomorrow from 2.15pm until 4.30pm at the Dolphin Centre , Darlington . |
| 4 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |
| 5 | The best strategy to counteract resistance is to ensure rational , self interest , where attempts are made to convince individuals that change is to their personal advantage . |
| 6 | Apart from catalysts , more efficient engines and reduction in mileage , the only other way of tackling emissions is to change the fuel . |
| 7 | The last kind of strategy for denying responsibility is to give it away to someone else . |
| 8 | If the point of inducing labour is to reduce risks to the neonate then it may be failing . |
| 9 | The zoos ' founding stock of lar gibbons came from the wild , and the usual way to catch gibbons is to shoot mothers and take away their infants , many of which die before they reach their destinations . |
| 10 | ‘ I have always believed that the only way to increase wealth is to share it more equally , both globally and nationally . |
| 11 | Burger King 's founding philosophy is to sell good quality food quickly and courteously , in clean and pleasant surroundings , at value for money prices . |
| 12 | The consequence is that the only way to secure reform is to secure the defeat of every Conservative candidate in Scotland at the general election . |
| 13 | The most important thing when keeping caterpillars is to give them plenty of fresh food . |
| 14 | But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that . |
| 15 | Here , Ritschl was following up a famous dictum of Luther 's younger contemporary and associate , Philip Melanchthon in his Loci Communes of 1521 , ‘ To know Christ is to know his benefits , not … to contemplate his natures . ’ |
| 16 | As ‘ Black History for Beginners ’ recognises , ‘ the only way to help abolish stereotypes is to present a more complete picture of black people in history . ’ |
| 17 | In this , the role of delaying syntax is to postpone the interpretation of one structure until another has been taken in , so that they ultimately make sense as a whole rather than in sequence . |
| 18 | ‘ Agitprop can sometimes be effective , but the problems facing us today are so wide that the only way to engage people and pose dilemmas is to key into matters which are universal . |
| 19 | However , the first step must be for us to achieve recognition at the level of official LEA policy that special educational provision begins with what the regular class teacher is doing in the classroom , and that the first responsibility of special needs teachers is to help class teachers meet special needs themselves . |
| 20 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 21 | The best way to find Diphda is to use Alpheratz and Gamma Pegasi , in the Square of Pegasus , as pointers . |
| 22 | One of the best — and easiest ways to obtain information is to LOOK AT THE LABEL . |
| 23 | Whereas the right of establishment entitles a company incorporated in one member state to set up agencies , branches and subsidiaries , without discrimination on grounds of nationality , in the territory of another , the purpose of the freedom to provide services is to enable a company established in one member state to do business in the territory of another without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries , and indeed without complying with all the rules and regulations of the second state , as explained below . |
| 24 | The key to total fitness is to build up gradually — find your own level to begin with . |
| 25 | To say that X causes Y is to say that , if X changes , it will produce a change in Y . |
| 26 | Is it not a telling comment on our times that to preach peace is to invite violence upon your person ? |
| 27 | In addition the Board believes that the best way to serve shareholders is to keep administration as simple as possible so that the Group can concentrate on its core business and maximise profit growth . ’ |
| 28 | THE British Hang Gliding Association is to investigate an accident in which a Wirral man 's hang glider crashed into an 11,000 volt cable on the Great Orme , at Llandudno . |
| 29 | The best way to counter trespass is to put up waymarks , so rights of way should be properly signposted , not just marked at the edge of the road . |
| 30 | Almost the whole problem of writing poetry is to bring it back to what you really feel , and that takes an awful lot of manoeuvring . |