Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he came in and he , he , he said I 'm just going down to see 's father , he 's just smashed the glass in the cold frame and I 'm I 'm sick of this ! |
| 2 | Yes , it 's another way of carrying out a procedure most of us prefer never to need , but are realistic enough to know is sometimes inevitable . |
| 3 | Mr Major sent his chief policy adviser Sarah Hogg to represent him at No 11 while he tucked in to shepherd 's pie and Krug champagne at the Archers ' riverside flat . |
| 4 | That 's that 's enough to start is n't it ? |
| 5 | The environment you will be working in to learn is called GW-BASIC , as this is the most common version of BASIC for the PC . |
| 6 | A covenant not to sue is not a release . |
| 7 | ‘ UK businesses now have a great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad , thanks not just to pound 's depreciation but to their own efficiency gains , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 8 | The decision as to whether or not to proceed is always made by the originator , thus allowing for his or her growth . |
| 9 | Similarly discretion not to prosecute is sometime based on grounds irrelevant to our purpose , e.g. that prosecution will cause widespread riots . |
| 10 | However , the freedom to provide or not to provide is regarded as an essential element in that sector , and therefore does not attract the same critical comment . |
| 11 | Mr Amir Kaisary , consultant urologist at London 's Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust , which is becoming a centre of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate disease , says : ‘ To screen nationally or not to screen is very much open to debate . |
| 12 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 13 | What not to do is to pan from the toddler back to the father , instead of cutting from one to the other . |
| 14 | The one thing he wishes not to do is to arouse defensive attitudes . |
| 15 | What what I propose not to do is to ask Mrs to read her summary . |
| 16 | ‘ What I have tried not to do is big black drawings of steel works , ’ said Mr Crowley , who was pleasantly surprised that his pre-conceived image of lots of chemical plants and an over-used river did not do justice to the scene . |
| 17 | What Westminster MPs tend not to understand is that the beneficiaries of this process have not been their cousins in the Strasbourg Parliament , nor even the European Commission , but the Council of Ministers . |
| 18 | The decision on whether or not to intervene is determined by a cost benefit calculus which focuses on efficiency rather than some vague notion of fairness . |
| 19 | A more important reason not to experiment is to avoid the possibility of getting the glider into an untested mode of spin from which it might be difficult or impossible to recover . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , ‘ those areas where pressure to build is greatest are precisely those where pressure not to build is also greatest ’ ; but , ending on an optimistic note . |
| 21 | But the decision about whether or not to fly is left to you , the pilot . |
| 22 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 23 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 24 | The only thing you have to be careful not to mention is the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 25 | To change is to die , he wrote , but not to change is also to die . |
| 26 | What the team decided not to change is as interesting as what it decided needed fixing . |
| 27 | In adults , the decision whether or not to defecate is under voluntary control . |
| 28 | To eat or not to eat is our 11-month-old son 's dilemma . |
| 29 | Also the decision to employ or not to employ is based ont he particular case : it is extremely rare that someone is given a job just because they went to a particular university . |
| 30 | Well , cos that 's a lot of money just to spend is n't it ? |