Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These criticisms seem valid and if NAB is to cope successfully with its daunting task of planning public sector higher education and negotiating with the University Grants Committee , then it would benefit from having more academic expertise and more representation from industry and the professions . |
| 2 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 3 | THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday . |
| 4 | This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it . |
| 5 | The lower rate of SMP is to go up from £46.30 to £47.95 a week , and the weekly earnings threshold is increased from £54 to £56 . |
| 6 | Verdix Corp 's Verdix Ada Development System is to go up on Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations under an agreement between the two , and Verdix said an Ada code generator for the Oracle CASE Architecture is now available following a 1992 joint product development agreement it has with its unit Meridian Software Systems and Oracle Corp 's Oracle Federal Systems subsidiary . |
| 7 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 8 | Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward . |
| 9 | An alternative route to reach the square is to go right along Via Unione , then first left into Via Arcimboldi and left again into Via Lupetta to reach Piazza Sant' Alessandro . |
| 10 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 11 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 12 | If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde . |
| 13 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 14 | The alternative to digging up a road is to go underneath it , where circumstances permit . |
| 15 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 16 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 17 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 18 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 19 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 20 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 21 | In the enterprise zone on the Isle of Dogs , the Canary Wharf commercial project — costing between £3 billion and £4 billion private-sector investment coupled with some £250 million public-sector infrastructural costs , and providing over 5 million square feet of office accommodation — is to go ahead . |
| 22 | They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday . |
| 23 | And it is becoming clear that the company will need to raise new capital if the second phase of its development , a theme park called Disney MGM Studios-Europe , is to go ahead on schedule . |
| 24 | Since the pipeline will cost $1 billion , such private capital is essential if the project is to go ahead . |
| 25 | If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead . |
| 26 | If production is to go ahead at all there has to be some minimum level of cooperation between management and workers , and workers require some autonomy if their initiative is to be counted upon . |
| 27 | We have a right to say that , if such a major project is to go ahead , we should not — as the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) said earlier — settle for whatever is on the table , but should ensure that it is the right project and that the correct amount of money and no more should be spent on it . |
| 28 | We 're go entering proposing to enter into legal agreements as well as planning conditions if it is to go ahead . |
| 29 | We need a decision on whether this Million Sterling Tournament is to go ahead or not . |
| 30 | The Spanish Airforce is to go ahead with plans to build a firing range near Anchuranas , 200km south of Madrid . |