Example sentences of "[to-vb] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever achievements policemen can claim , the ability to communicate is certainly not one of them ’ , said Sir Robert Mark in his 1973 Dimbleby Lecture . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’ |
| 3 | And what they will be trying to catch is just 70 very big carp dominated by a monster 36lb specimen . |
| 4 | Inside the mouse 's body , of course , the poison that made it so easy to catch is still present and can cause serious damage to the unfortunate cat . |
| 5 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 6 | He goes on , ‘ What I would like to know is just who produced this paper . |
| 7 | What I want to know is just what did it take to get him to do that ? |
| 8 | Now yes there are times when other people give you arguments and will try and change it around and and you know yes we will listen to them and will agree that but what we want to know is ultimately is what 's going to be done about it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The covenant to repair is extremely important ; interpretation can be a problem which , if not quickly settled , becomes a source of continuing hostility between landlord and tenant . |
| 11 | Usually the imbalance of representation that the Commission 's system was intended to redress is less striking . |
| 12 | Similarly discretion not to prosecute is sometime based on grounds irrelevant to our purpose , e.g. that prosecution will cause widespread riots . |
| 13 | Ironically , the power to prosecute is rarely used . |
| 14 | Even with detection and reporting , a prosecution may not follow ; failure to prosecute is more marked in Scotland where requirements of corroboration are higher than in England and Wales . |
| 15 | All the clarity and detail which Griffith managed to find is there , but there is also body and warmth which one remembers from the original 78s . |
| 16 | So the temptation to stray is much worse . |
| 17 | Being academic in origin the likelihood of Sparcle coming to pass is probably pretty dim . |
| 18 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 19 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 20 | Although a satisfactory account of these models requires a level of technical exposition well beyond the scope of this book , the basic question which they attempted to answer is quite simple to grasp . |
| 21 | The ability to discriminate is admittedly a basic ingredient of survival . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The gap between the willingness to lend and the capacity to receive is partly due to the fact that the majority of donors have country lending , or granting , targets . |
| 24 | A geometric lock which requires no force to lock is seriously out of adjustment . |
| 25 | But whether golfers are worth the staggering cash they seem to bank is quite another subject and , before he died , I chose to ask this question of Henry Cotton who , as a young man , won three Open titles , but comparatively small cheques to go with them . |
| 26 | Failure to remember is much more serious , of course , than a simple lapse of memory . |
| 27 | Ah , important people to remember is quite an interesting sheet because everybody hates it so much . |
| 28 | This proposed approach to design is thus one in which the constraints or functional attributes are established at the earliest possible time in order to allow the design to be monitored . |
| 29 | Another church to visit is near at hand . |
| 30 | The conclusion that Nizan wishes to highlight is lucidly straightforward : The forces of fascism are taking up the fight against the anti-fascist educator . |