Example sentences of "is [to-vb] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Lilley should go to any city in this country and try to live with nothing … find how degrading it is to go to those places and ask for blankets and ask for food . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ is to assure to each member state a share of the Community 's total allowable catch , determined essentially on the basis of the catches from which traditional fishing activities , the local populations dependent on fisheries and related industries of that member state benefited before the quota system was established . ’ |
| 3 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 4 | I think the key thing is to listen to that instinct as it 's most probably the thing that has the highest chance of being right . |
| 5 | In the universities competitive bidding is to apply to all student places , although the Council has said that institutions will be protected from sudden and drastic cuts in funding as a result of unsuccessful bidding . |
| 6 | The decision as to which allocation is to apply to any block of four patients is simply made by random selection of a digit in the range 1 to 6 . |
| 7 | There 's an old saying do n't get mad , get even , and the only way we 're gon na get even with this government and we have to learn a lesson from history , is to do to this government what unfortunately we had to do in nineteen seventy nine and if any government deserve to be taken on , then it 's this Tory government . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to this task . |
| 9 | The aim of this study is to contribute to this inquiry by a comparative study of wage forms and work organisation in the trades of eighteenth-century France . |
| 10 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |
| 11 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 12 | This is stored in the directory \Windows and all you have to do to run it is to change to this directory and type MSD . |
| 13 | It is not that the west has failed to make an attempt to do so , and I pay genuine tribute to the work done by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and by my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , who is to reply to this debate , and to the tireless efforts of Lord Carrington and , more recently , Mr. Cyrus Vance . |