Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog .
2 Here the philosophy is to go and find the clients in a range of sectors which have a compatible style and approach leaving the other clients to seek their executive search needs elsewhere .
3 Beauracrats , teachers and pupils say the only way parents can judge a school is to go and take a look at it
4 Generally , the only way to find something out is to go and see the individual concerned ; however , appointments can not be made when the phone refuses to work .
5 I think if you feel like that , the great thing is to go and punch a cushion — let off steam somehow or other But , if possible , do n't let it off on your carer !
6 He wrote : The big thing in developing the United Front is to agitate and bring the masses into activity around the particular issues and to get organisation ( Committees ) , expressing and representing the actual character of the movement .
7 Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing .
8 As already indicated , the function of these committees is to plan and oversee the form taken by the project within the school in question .
9 Essentially the engineer 's role is to monitor and supervise the construction and to ensure that the works are completed to time , cost and colour .
10 In studying the political economy of policy co-ordination , the plan is to compare and contrast the results of non-cooperative policy formation using computer programmes for policy design , ( with the aid of macroeconomic models where feasible ) .
11 Their function is to promote and protect the industry they represent .
12 South East Arts is one of fourteen publicly funded regional arts associations in England and Wales , whose brief is to stimulate and extend the practice , understanding and enjoyment of the arts among the people of the region .
13 Your aim in this writing is to penetrate and supervene the way you normally see and construe your surroundings , to discover a new angle of vision .
14 The first step is to isolate and disconnect the old radiator .
15 The function of the court is to construe and apply the enactments of Parliament .
16 By contrast , if a decision is to be made about whether a pupil is to pass or fail an examination then a boundary would have to be set .
17 To cure spin out the aim is to try and spread the sideways force of the sail along the rails of the board , rather than it being concentrated on the straining skeg .
18 So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration
19 An alternative is to try and utilise the participating adults as observers who might subsequently be able to provide sufficient contextual detail to support interpretations of the transcribed speech .
20 Er what we 're trying to do really is to try and stop the opportunis opportunist thief .
21 Casting a critical eye over the mock-up , Adml Eaton said : ‘ We are always wishing to get fewer people in ships and so one of ways is to try and improve the human interface with the machinery .
22 Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that .
23 Erm I think that that in the same way as if we went down too low , could be considered to be er a change of strategy and I think what we 're about is to try and reflect the currently er approved structure plan strategy .
24 The basic idea is to try and form the nucleus of England 's test team , and with the players in their teenage years .
25 The aim of this research is to try and fill the gap .
26 The idea is to try and develop a steady build up of air play before the record is released so that on the week of release there is a good demand for the record and this reflects in your chart position .
27 I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops .
28 Well we 're the study seminars can take place either at Sussex or overseas , and in fact our present policy is to try and increase the number that actually take place in the Third World , because we feel that that has a number of advantages .
29 ‘ The aim of this inquiry into the order relating to case no. 596 , in the charge of Miss P. Sulkins , home visitor in the employ of the Bamborough Area Council for Social Service until last year — the pink file , sir — and transferred from the list covered by the South Midlands ( Eastern Section ) Administrative Area — the papers in the yellow folder , sir — is to try and establish an order of events that stretch over no little period in time , so that responsibility for the unfortunate outcome of these actions , or as some have chosen to prejudge this enquiry , lack of action , may be apportioned justly between the various bodies responsible under the Act .
30 Ultimately , the best solution is to try and defeat the cat 's damaging ways by using understanding and intelligence rather than foul-smelling chemicals .
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