Example sentences of "[vb -s] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing he wants is to be dubbed ‘ Saint James ’ . |
| 2 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 3 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 4 | If all he wants is to hitchhikers does n't he ? |
| 5 | All it needs is to be made to fit . |
| 6 | Meanwhile former West Indies captain Sir Garfield Sobers is to be the subject of a solo painting . |
| 7 | A survey to gain a clear picture of where the dumping occurs is to be carried out by the North Sea Conference . |
| 8 | One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science . |
| 9 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 10 | Even a small park with a few facilities can achieve ***** if what it offers is to an exceptionally high quality standard . |
| 11 | The money £200,000 more than Darlington usually receives is to be used on three major improvement schemes alongside the main East Coast railway line . |
| 12 | The Third Annual Punch Egothon ( Spring Edition ) : while it presumes to expose the year 's most overbearing , vain , egocentric celebrities , all it actually does is to unwittingly credit these attributes to your own good selves . |
| 13 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 14 | Unless the registrar is instructed to the contrary , a transfer to the wife and new husband will result in the registration of a restriction to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the Registrar or of the Court ( ie the survivor of the wife and new husband can not give a good receipt for capital monies ) ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 ( SR & O 1925 No 1093 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 , SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 15 | Even a 1 Key holiday home can be Highly Commended if what it provides is to a very high standard . |
| 16 | Please remember that even a Listed or 1 Crown place , or 1 Key holiday home , can still be Highly Commended if what it provides is to an exceptionally high standard . |