Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first landing , the things to practise are more variations in the approaches and landings , trying some steep and some shallow , but attempting to touch down accurately on the chosen spot . |
| 2 | The thing to remember is that interest is tax-deductible ( up to certain limits ) and capital is n't . |
| 3 | The important thing to remember is that climate is influenced by events above and below the Earth . |
| 4 | The thing to remember is this : modern tackle , fancy baits and productive waters do not make a carp angler . |
| 5 | But whether it is the right thing to do is another thing . |
| 6 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 7 | Perhaps the first thing to realise is that learning is not a linear business . |
| 8 | ‘ What kind of thing to say is that ! ’ said Gloria . |
| 9 | I think the that the first thing to say is that one of the reason why this option this paper was asked for was that we , so we could actually begin to look to see whether or not trickle transfer made sense in Cambridge . |
| 10 | The first thing to notice is that Ullman builds implicit assumptions about the physics and geometry of the real world , and about biologically normal viewing conditions , into the computations carried out by the visual system . |
| 11 | The second thing to note is that to say that someone who says ‘ I hope ’ — for example , ‘ I hope you 'll come ’ — is simply expressing his mental state is to ignore the role of such utterances in human intercourse . |