Example sentences of "[vb infin] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income .
2 What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood .
3 Erm I mean everything yo you can buy is in here .
4 Pascal captures the negative side when he writes , ‘ Doubt then is an unhappy state , but there is an indispensable duty to seek in doubt , and thus anyone who doubts and does not seek is at once unhappy and in the wrong . ’
5 One of the first-time buyer discounts that Martin should consider is from Abbey National .
6 " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . "
7 it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions .
8 All you can do is to KILL the offending BBCBASIC(Z80) instantiation .
9 But what I wan na do is to , I 'll get you all eventually .
10 The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off .
11 So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching
12 But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it
13 What you got ta do is like that .
14 therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need .
15 The person holding the wing-tip should always run the down wind wing-tip so that any pull that he may exert is against the weathercocking swing into the wind .
16 What you can expect is to be asked to justify your approach to nursing problems .
17 Obviously , they take time to adjust to being someone 's pet , but the love they will give is worth any effort put in .
18 The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre .
19 The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda .
20 WHERE difficulties can occur is in the matter of families .
21 What Muslim men do n't like is for their women to work outside the home , potentially in the company of strange men .
22 What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl .
23 And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand .
24 But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service .
25 What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly .
26 Erm but one of the things they did not like is for erm to have a sales consultant on the medical practice for three weeks using their
27 ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare .
28 I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous .
29 ‘ Whether you are a king or a street sweeper , we all have to dance with the Grim Reaper , ’ he uttered — which you may remember is from that poignant , sensitive art movie , Bill And Ted 's Bogus Journey .
30 Sources hear that internationalisation work is under way , which is usually the last task before release .
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