Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a specific sum is anticipated in 6 months time , and today 's price of the share in which it is intended to invest is considered low or is forecast to rise , then the price may be fixed now by the use of a call option . |
| 2 | ‘ Detective Eddy has received word from London that someone he wants to see is expected to be here today . |
| 3 | What I 'm dying to know is does the tribe remember ? |
| 4 | And all she wants to know is do I use this jug , or do we use that jug . |
| 5 | The field which the path has to cross is owned by Wimpey and let out to a tenant farmer . |
| 6 | Sometimes what we expect to hear is predetermined by cultural influences as well as the ways in which facts have previously been presented to us . |
| 7 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 8 | The most she is expected to do is use slightly more positive words about Britain 's aims . |
| 9 | All you 'll need to do is sit on a horse . |
| 10 | And one of the things that a new director-general will need to do is to say , loud and clear : you can have GATT , or bilateral do-it-yourself trade policies , but you can not have both . |
| 11 | Cos I think that what we will need to do is refer it to General Purposes Committee for and people to go and have a look at it . |
| 12 | If we have made your ferry booking all you will need to do is relax and plan your journey and the AA can offer expert help with route planning for a small extra charge details will be sent with your tickets . |
| 13 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 14 | But what I say to do is buy a new chiller and get it on and then all Summer we 'll get this damn problem again . |
| 15 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 16 | What the formula has to do is to compare the title of the project in column B ( which has been left blank until this point ) with the column labels in columns F , G , H and so on . |
| 17 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 18 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 19 | As the author says , ‘ All the would-be garden painter has to do is to stop and look . ’ |
| 20 | All an eavesdropper has to do is key in the broad frequency and then ‘ tweak ’ it a little to get the fine tuning . |
| 21 | All he has to do is show he 's over a certain age can prove who he is , you can buy a gun . |
| 22 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 23 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 24 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 25 | Yeah all she has to do is go go round her bit round just a normal road , across the road down a little bit and she 's there . |
| 26 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 27 | All this potential migrant has to do is to say well does that area right exceed sorry this area . |
| 28 | All he has to do is drink a bottle a day , and he can skip lunch , keep late hours , loll around in his soft leather chair . |
| 29 | The first thing a Minister in charge of a department sponsoring a Bill has to do is negotiate time from the Leader of the House for his Bill . |
| 30 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |