Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting for Jane 's Addiction to come on is like waiting at the altar — there are moments when you 're certain they will blow you out . |
| 2 | The only way to find out is for her to get an HIV antibody test . |
| 3 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 4 | Where it begins to work superbly is in the more private , indoor scenes of the opera 's later acts , from the great confrontation between the King and Inquisitor onwards . |
| 5 | A place you may agree not to talk in is in the kitchen . |
| 6 | Describing a new screening programme to detect Down 's in the foetus at a London hospital , the British Medical Journal ( 8 October 1988 ) claims that it could ‘ detect 60 per cent of affected pregnancies … and could reduce the number of children born with Down 's syndrome in the United Kingdom from about 900 a year to about 350 a year ’ . |
| 7 | Or could further research prove that the most efficient way to bowl quickly is with a Procteresque action ? |
| 8 | The first paper to look in is of course your own local paper . |
| 9 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 10 | All this equal rights tosh we have had to endure surely is at an end . |
| 11 | Not to do so is like asserting that the armour of a battle-cruiser is too heavy , or the range of her guns too great , without inquiring into the nature and effectiveness of the enemy 's armament . |
| 12 | The richness , breadth and detail of this book is astonishing : to read its pages and it 's hard to put down is to be transported to the world of Paris of 1900 and the rough , dirty , vigourous life of Picasso and his cronies . |
| 13 | What we want to do now is to actually erm do a er a guided scripture meditation with you . |
| 14 | Right , okay , so has everybody created a constant right , what we are going to do now is to er estimate the first model right equation one on the sheets that you 've been given , alright , you 've created a constant , we 've got our variables L N T C L N I L N P |
| 15 | What I would like to do now is to just pass round the , the agenda for , for the , for these two days . |
| 16 | The contrast I wish to draw here is between an image of the corporate manager as an expert profit-maximizer and an image of him as a trained public servant . |
| 17 | What we are looking to do here is to water down what we have at the moment . |
| 18 | Now what I 'd like to do today is to erm take you round the house in a moment or two , see what you think of it and really to treat this as something whereby you see if you want to come and help us . |
| 19 | To do otherwise is to be guilty of double counting . |
| 20 | The tastiest way to warm up is with a bowl of Boston 's traditional clam chowder with oyster crackers . |
| 21 | For instance , is it really important to realise that the ollie to nosepick above is on an exceptionally harsh bank in Nottingham ? |
| 22 | Where they do tend to turn away is in cases where the effect of the work is aversive because its purpose is aversive and the intention to shock or appal is successfully realised . |
| 23 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |
| 24 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 25 | The cheapest and easiest way to teach clinically is by apprenticeship . |
| 26 | The door to this room is closed and locked , and the only way to get in is by getting the key from the ‘ attic ’ above Drachenfels ' master bedroom ( location 53 ) . |
| 27 | The easiest way to get there is by train from Prague . |