Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing an executive search consultant wants to do is to take on an assignment which is not achievable and which he or she can not complete . |
| 2 | The temptation which most club golfers seem to face is to take out a wedge regardless of the fact that the shot might be easier using a different club . |
| 3 | What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist . |
| 4 | But what every intelligence chief longs to do is somehow to tap into the very heart of the opponent 's communication system and listen to his most secret messages without him being aware . |
| 5 | All that Mr. Millan has to do is to release the money and it will be spent . |
| 6 | The ‘ new world ’ that Mr Bush seeks to order is quite small . |
| 7 | With an election to fight , the last thing Mr Gandhi wants to defend is a dose of IMF discipline . |
| 8 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 9 | The country is crying out for leadership and all Mr Smith has to offer is a talking-shop for academics and political has-beens . |
| 10 | The temperature at which water droplets begin to condense is called the dew-point — literally , the temperature below which dew will form . |
| 11 | The economic sovereignty which Mrs Thatcher claims to defend is a chimera . |
| 12 | An avenue Lord Owen wants to explore is compliance by Croats and Muslims in territory they control . |
| 13 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 14 | The other method mushroom polyps use to reproduce is division . |
| 15 | Oxford United 's boy wonder … two more goals against Millwall won the headlines last saturday and the queue of premier league clubs coming to watch is growing longer … |
| 16 | The second thing Victor wants to say is that he was spurred into action by the piece on holes in bread , which has put one or two of you into a right old sandwich . |
| 17 | The recession has hit the farming community as hard as anyone — and the last thing farmers want to see is their livelihood going up in smoke . |
| 18 | When the engineers are needed , all the duty staff have to do is call the computer through an office terminal , and enter the type of emergency . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've caught on very quickly to some of the interesting things Brownies do , but do n't forget the first thing Brownies learn to do is to give . ’ |
| 20 | Courses are available at all levels and exhibit a considerable diversity , from foundation courses which provide a basic general education in art and design to CNAA post-graduate courses leading to master 's degrees in such specialist areas as fashion and textiles , fine art , and graphic design . |
| 21 | As the author says , ‘ All the would-be garden painter has to do is to stop and look . ’ |
| 22 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 23 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 24 | Once a potential infill has been identified , by whatever means , preferably a Regional initiative , the first thing householders want to KNOW is ‘ what 'll it cost ? ’ |
| 25 | To construct table 5.2 the first step the cost accountant has to take is to construct the rival 's experience curve which reflects the learning rate of 80 per cent . |
| 26 | The problem Steve seems to have is that he ca n't stop himself asking banal , pretentious , inconsequential questions which produce zero ( sic ) by way of an interesting response . |
| 27 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |
| 28 | All that LIFESPAN users need to know is which code a new module is to be associated with . |
| 29 | What the preliminary or collateral fact doctrine seeks to do is to distinguish those elements within the bracket which can be regarded as conditioning the power of the tribunal to go on and consider the merits from the merits themselves . |