Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 2 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 3 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 4 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 5 | The true success of the American skiing industry has been to adapt to the ageing of its customers . |
| 6 | The emphasis in such systems has been to concentrate on the representation , organisation and use of linguistic knowledge as encapsulated and expressed by linguistic rules and procedures . |
| 7 | One approach to the problem has been to think of the world as God 's body . |
| 8 | Most appropriately , his approach has been to break through the author 's privacy , effectively dragging him out of the closet and giving an imaginative frame to the book by presenting the deplorable facts of Burroughs 's life . |
| 9 | The priority has been to buy off the ex-brigadiers of Hampshire . |
| 10 | It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord . |
| 11 | The only recompe the only resource anyone has is to go to the courts , for the courts to decide what the law is at that present moment . |
| 12 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 13 | ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 14 | ( with whom Fox and Russell L.JJ. agreed ) said , at pp. 991–992 : ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 15 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 16 | All you 've got ta do is to sit on the bog and go oooaaah |
| 17 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 18 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 19 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 20 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 21 | All that can be done is to point to the factors that the courts commonly take into account when calculating the multiplier . |
| 22 | One way to answer is to look at the interests converging in two marriages probably dateable to 839 . |
| 23 | The reason this occurs is to do with the way Word handles files . |
| 24 | The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change . |
| 25 | Obviously , the thing to do is to backwind to the point where the eating of the banana comes to an end and begin the next shot from there . |
| 26 | All you have to do is to go with the flow of events , letting each scene add to what has gone before . |
| 27 | The second thing we need to do is to lobby for the repeal of the unwinding of the safety net . |
| 28 | Obviously the first thing to do is to deal with the family 's emotional problem as well as your own . |
| 29 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |
| 30 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |