Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] is [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to do so is to admit that one 's own qualities are not required by the organisation . |
| 2 | When a target word is briefly presented in a tachistoscope , and the subject 's task is to report the word , the ability to do so is reduced if the word is followed by another stimulus ( a backward mask ) rather than simply darkness . |
| 3 | Er what we 're trying to do really is to try and stop the opportunis opportunist thief . |
| 4 | That looks nice erm , all we have to do now is go and erm get a card and take the price , oh the prices must be on these |
| 5 | Or all the ones that need sold , you know , got nice photographs of all the sold boards , and what I want her to do now is go and literally go and traipse the streets |
| 6 | What you 've got to do now is try and build some bridges with her . |
| 7 | All she 's supposed to do now is wait till it grow again |
| 8 | Now , that 's and example of functional group isomerism what I 'd like you to do now is to try and decide what these two things are called I 'm gon na put on the board and try and decide what you would call them in terms these general labels under structural isomerism . |
| 9 | All I wish to do here is to suggest that there are other ways of understanding or looking at extremes of penitential life which can suggest in them sources , not of neurotic repression but of freedom and self-ownership . |