Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greater part of the grant has in the past been to help finance our teacher training . |
| 2 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 3 | Crisis loans are to help pay for things needed urgently because of an emergency or disaster . |
| 4 | The savings — altogether £100m over the period of the scheme — are to help pay for safety improvements at football grounds . |
| 5 | BRITISH fliers are to help bring food to the starving people of war-ravaged Somalia . |
| 6 | CHURCHES in Bebington are to help tackle the problem of homelessness in the area . |
| 7 | There appeared to be general consensus that the new Bank 's capital should amount to 10,000 million European currency units ( ECU ) and that its objective should be to help reinforce the competitive and private sector ( without necessarily excluding the public sector , which the United Kingdom government had advocated ) . |
| 8 | In the short term , NATO 's role should increasingly be to help manage common security within the Helsinki framework . |
| 9 | The tutor 's role will be to help clarify and develop these activities . |
| 10 | ‘ The aim would be to help fire services throughout the former Eastern block countries . ’ |
| 11 | His role will be to help develop with other departments a strategy to bring about the transformation in our understanding and use of science and technology in our society that is so important to the country 's future . |
| 12 | Another objective might be to help dissipate a patient 's emotions sufficiently for him to be able to contemplate constructive approaches to tackling his problems . |
| 13 | One use of a balance sheet in a PLC may be to help assess the level of gearing ( i.e. the ratio of debt to equity ) as a measure of the riskiness of future profits . |
| 14 | Sometimes he thought how easy it would be to let go , to drift . |
| 15 | Officers were allowed to take part in board discussions , and they saw one of their main roles as being to help prevent negative decisions from being taken for trivial reasons . |
| 16 | If WWR were to let go of slalom 's apron strings it would inevitably help WWR find its feet . |
| 17 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 18 | The challenge is to help create a climate within which it is not just acceptable but normal for teachers to talk openly about their feelings , their perceptions , their misgivings , their ideals and their experiments , whether large or small , successful or unsuccessful . |
| 19 | The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way . |
| 20 | Our main aim is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market . |
| 21 | The aim of the Employment Service is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market , particularly by giving positive help to unemployed people through its job placement service and other programmes and by the payment of benefits and allowances to those who are entitled to them . |
| 22 | Our job is to help build up trust between the smaller companies and their banks . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 24 | As you will discover , I am very much a believer that we largely teach ourselves when learning new skills and that the main purpose of a book or instructor is to help clarify exactly what your aims are . |
| 25 | Later it may prove that he is a real visionary and her cautiousness is to help refine his vision . |
| 26 | The primary object of family counselling is to help negotiate new , mutually acceptable and agreed expectations , with each party being aware of what is expected of them , and how much they can reasonably expect from others . |
| 27 | ‘ Our aim is to help break their culture of silence , which would , in the long-term , contribute to the wellbeing of Indian society as a whole , ’ he added . |
| 28 | This is to help ensure nutritional balance in your diet and , in particular , to supply calcium , because dietary fibre can hinder the absorption of calcium to some degree . |
| 29 | I had some wonderful times there , but my job now is to help sort out Yeovil 's problems . ’ |
| 30 | The grand plan , according to Apple , is to help make the state 's youngsters ‘ computer literate ’ . |