Example sentences of "to is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these firearms offences appear to amount to is a criminalization of the carrying of firearms in all but the most innocent of contexts . |
| 2 | But it may be , as this discussion suggests , that whilst the confusion Ayer points to is a real one , the meaning of the word ‘ existence ’ is genuinely complex . |
| 3 | I am not so bothered about losing the repeat in the Andante cantabile of K548 , although that to is a lovely work — it might be argued that at 12:44 , the London Fortepiano Trio 's performance of this movement is too much of a good thing ! |
| 4 | To witness the atrocities men can sink to is a bizarre experience : we all belong to the human race ; we are all guilty . |
| 5 | One woman I spoke to is a very successful designer . |
| 6 | The other part is Jackie , to whom going round that tight course as fast as Elf 's insurance would allow him to is a mere nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ Lady Wardley said , ‘ whoever it belongs to is a trespasser . |
| 8 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 9 | What quite this comes to is a topic that will be addressed later , but it is safe to say now that they are not terms suited to actors ' autobiographies , nor terms easily accepted by historians . |
| 10 | All such a belief amounts to is a gesture towards something ; and a very strange sort of gesture too , for gestures are normally only comprehensible as public acts with publicly observable objects , while here the gesture is a private act with a private object . |
| 11 | In producing Supersense , the animal that I personally have become closest to is a European green-winged teal , which follows me everywhere . |
| 12 | Oh yes , Katherine , the school you are about to go to is a very special sort of place . ’ |
| 13 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 14 | Indeed Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 , p. 104 ) argue that there is a sense in which ‘ the phrase central-local government relations is a misnomer ; what the term really refers to is a set of London-based relations between central government and the national local government community . |
| 15 | In the discussion which follows it will be assumed that what is being referred to is a receiver appointed out of court . |
| 16 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |
| 17 | Chomsky ( 1957 : 100 ) goes even further , for he holds that to is a morpheme that " can hardly be said to have a meaning in any independent sense " . |
| 18 | The first point to be made is that to is not , strictly speaking , part of the infinitive : the latter is a verb , whereas to is a dematerialized preposition whose use is called for in certain contexts because of the meaning it expresses . |
| 19 | The other feature , I think , of the debt that 's worth drawing your attention to is a sharp shift towards variable debt compared to a year ago , a number of our swaps have matured , we 've put one new one in er , some of our medium term notes have matured in the , in the States and we 're at last in a position to take more advantage of er , lower , short term variable interest rates than we were . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Stripped of the elaborate language of general equilibrium theory , what this criticism usually boils down to is a very simple question : if there is general excess supply in the labour market , what forces prevent the real wage rate from being adjusted downwards ? |
| 22 | What this pseudo policy rule amounts to is a presumption by agents that the demand management authorities consider an unemployment rate U , to be , in some sense , optimal and that they will adjust monetary and fiscal policies in such a way as to maintain this unemployment rate . |
| 23 | We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go . |
| 24 | ‘ Why you had to is a mystery to me , but do n't do me any — ’ |