Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hurry was to dispel any feeling of luxury . |
| 2 | All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow . |
| 3 | What you have started to do is to create this place of support and satisfaction in yourself : you 've begun to make room in your mind for your writer-self . |
| 4 | What we are now trying to do is to explain that variation in cost . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , all you have to do is press this button . |
| 6 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 7 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 8 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 9 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |
| 10 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 11 | What we really need to do is to find some land to play on . |
| 12 | Another Xerox All you have to do is find another superproduct with a powerful technology to exploit . |
| 13 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 15 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll ignore that last bit , Myra ; all I want to do is get this apology for a holiday over and get back to work . ’ |
| 17 | and er I bloody , I said , I said in the end I 've , what we ought to do is lop some part of their anatomy off , like a little digit or something then we can prove they 've been in |
| 18 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 19 | So all you need to do is remember that table which is the same , the same as when you , this is for adding adding or subtracting , and the same table for multiplying or dividing , yeah ? |
| 20 | It what it tends to do is to encourage more traffic to come into Knaresborough on the main road as opposed to the two secondary roads . |
| 21 | ALL you have to do is enter this competition , courtesy of Cheshire Tourism , is to answer the three simple questions . |
| 22 | And I think what we ought to do is have another look at you now . |
| 23 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 24 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 25 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 26 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 27 | And one of the things we set out to do was to bring some stability to the industry because everyone was trying to carve prices up . |
| 28 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 29 | The most difficult part of learning to read is learning that learning to read is worth the effort involved , and of being aware of the rewards of reading . |
| 30 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |