Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 2 | The message the voice has to impart is well-known to the users of this service : ‘ Good morning , ladies and gentlemen inaudible earlier defective train leading to inaudible cancellations inaudible delays to all destinations . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Detective Eddy has received word from London that someone he wants to see is expected to be here today . |
| 4 | One way of stating this global assumption is this : what the child has to acquire is the ability to direct , inhibit , and co-ordinate his thoughts , as he earlier had to direct , inhibit and co-ordinate his actions . |
| 5 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who 's buying a second-hand car , the first thing he wants to know is how many miles it 's done . |
| 7 | All he wants to know is where I 'm going . |
| 8 | All the court wants to know is are you pleading guilty or not guilty . |
| 9 | All your mother wants to know is where it is and who 'll be there ! ’ |
| 10 | What the House wants to know is whether the international business community has confidence in the policies of the Labour party . |
| 11 | And all she wants to know is do I use this jug , or do we use that jug . |
| 12 | He says they may be able to exchange their tickets but what he wants to know is where has all the money gone ? |
| 13 | An avenue Lord Owen wants to explore is compliance by Croats and Muslims in territory they control . |
| 14 | The question that the hon. Gentleman has to answer is what nostrums put forward by his Front-Bench spokesmen would make such a record possible under a Labour Government . |
| 15 | In sentence 1 the identity of the person who wants to resign is grammatically established as the president and in sentence 2 it is established as some male person who is not the president : the grammar itself specifies disjunctive reference for him . |
| 16 | ‘ A third role the Guild has to play is in the promotion of the consumption and enjoyment of cheese . |
| 17 | Yeah , cos all he needs to buy is two of them and he 's won ! |
| 18 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 19 | The field which the path has to cross is owned by Wimpey and let out to a tenant farmer . |
| 20 | The independent variable on which one has to focus is the political culture . |
| 21 | At the top of the list of industries which the Commission wants to help is the clothing business . |
| 22 | The last thing a Trekkie wants to hear is analysis : enthusiasm is all . |
| 23 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 26 | All he has to do is fill in the person 's name . |
| 27 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 28 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 29 | All the angler has to do is raise the point of his rod , and the fish hooks itself . |
| 30 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |